Identity verification
built for Rwanda 
Indangamuntu National ID, Passport and Driver's Licence on one session, screened against Rwandan regulatory watchlists — $0.33 full KYC, 500 free every month.




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How identity verification works in Rwanda.
- Fraud landscape
- Three pressures shape Rwandan identity fraud: deepfake and synthetic-ID attacks on the wave of cross-border payments and remittance corridors, Indangamuntu card forgery, and AML pressure on regional trade and remittance corridors with Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi, and the DRC. Didit scores 200+ real-time fraud signals on every session — face morph, replay, injection, document tampering, device intelligence, IP geolocation.
- Compliance frameworks
- Law 075/2019 (AML/CFT)
- Law 058/2021 (personal data protection and privacy)
- NBR Regulation on AML/CFT
- Kigali International Financial Centre regulatory framework
- FATF 40 recommendations
Who supervises identity verification in Rwanda.
NBR
National Bank of Rwanda — central bank and prudential supervisor for banks, payment service providers, microfinance institutions, and electronic-money issuers.
CMA Rwanda
Capital Market Authority — capital-markets supervisor for licensed brokers, fund managers, and investment advisors. Hosts the Kigali International Financial Centre regime.
FIC Rwanda
Financial Intelligence Centre — Rwanda's Financial Intelligence Unit. Receives Suspicious Transaction Reports under Law 075/2019 on the prevention and punishment of money laundering and terrorism financing.
NIDA
National Identification Agency — issuer of the Indangamuntu National ID and the 16-digit National Identification Number. Maintains the authoritative national identity register.
MINICT
Ministry of Information Communication Technology and Innovation — administers Law 058/2021 on the protection of personal data and privacy.
Four modules. One verification.
Capture and read the ID.
Captured on any phone — auto-classified, OCR-parsed, and template-verified.
- Indangamuntu National ID (with the 16-digit National Identification Number parsed), Passport (with the chip read on e-Passports), and Driver's Licence.
- Returns the name, NIDA number, date of birth, place of issue, and expiry.
- Indangamuntu National ID
- Passport — chip read on e-Passport
- Driver's Licence
Match the face. Prove it's a real person..
Selfie confirmed live and matched against the ID portrait.
- Duplicate check: 1:N face search across existing users. Free.
- Active liveness ($0.15) for elevated-risk flows — user turns or blinks.
- Selfie on any phone or laptop camera
- Mobile-handoff QR when the user starts on desktop
Screen for sanctions, PEPs, and adverse media.
1,300+ global sanctions, PEP, and adverse-media lists — plus Rwandan watchlists:
- House of Representatives of Rwanda — PEP Level 1 elected officials.
- National Electoral Commission — PEP Level 2 electoral authority officials.
- Rwanda National Police — PEP Level 2 law enforcement officials.
- Office of the Prime Minister — PEP Level 2 executive officials.
- Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning — PEP Level 2 senior finance officials.
- Ministry of Defense — PEP Level 2 senior defense officials.
- Rwanda Utilities Regulatory Authority (RURA) — PEP Level 2 regulatory officials.
- Rwanda Development Board (RDB) — PEP Level 2 development authority officials.
- National Security Council — PEP Level 2 security officials.
- Kigali City Council — PEP Level 4 municipal officials.
- Rwanda Office of the Ombudsman (RWOMBUD) — ombudsperson enforcement register.
- Rwanda Ministry of Foreign Affairs — Warnings and diplomatic designations.
Severity-scored. Ongoing monitoring ($0.07/user/yr) re-checks daily and fires a webhook on new hits.
Screen for sanctions, PEPs, and adverse media — see the docs for the full module surface.
Bind every check to one audited session.
- There is no public government database validation API for Rwanda currently exposed as a standalone Didit service — the NIDA registry does not currently offer a public consumer API open to third-party integrators.
Bind every check to one audited session — see the docs for the full module surface.
Every Rwanda document Didit accepts.
Civil-registry and AML coverage for Rwanda.
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Common questions about Rwanda.
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