Identity verification
built for Senegal 
National Identity Card and Passport on one session, screened against CENTIF sanctions lists and West African GIABA watchlists, $0.33 full KYC, 500 free every month.
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How identity verification works in Senegal.
- Fraud landscape
- Three pressures shape Senegalese identity fraud: synthetic-CNIB and deepfake attacks targeting Wave and Orange Money mobile-money onboarding flows, national ID card forgery across the legacy paper and current CNIB biometric formats, and AML pressure on West African cross-border remittance corridors under CENTIF and GIABA mutual-evaluation requirements. Didit scores 200+ real-time fraud signals on every session, face morph, replay, injection, document tampering, device intelligence, IP geolocation.
- Compliance frameworks
- Loi Uniforme GIABA/WAEMU relative à la lutte contre le blanchiment de capitaux et le financement du terrorisme
- BCEAO Instruction n°008-05-2015 sur la monnaie électronique
- Loi n°2008-12 relative à la protection des données personnelles et au GAINDE
- Commission Bancaire UMOA Dispositif Prudentiel
- Ministry of Economy, Consolidated Sanctions List
- FATF 40 recommendations
Who supervises identity verification in Senegal.
BCEAO
Banque Centrale des États de l'Afrique de l'Ouest, central bank and financial supervisor across the WAEMU zone. Supervises banks, electronic-money issuers, microfinance institutions, and payment service providers in Senegal under Instruction n°008-05-2015.
CENTIF
Cellule Nationale de Traitement des Informations Financières, Senegal's Financial Intelligence Unit. Receives Déclarations d'Opérations Suspectes (DOS) from obliged entities and coordinates with GIABA on regional AML/CFT enforcement.
Commission Bancaire UMOA
Commission Bancaire de l'Union Monétaire Ouest-Africaine, prudential supervisor for banking groups across the WAEMU zone, including all banks and microfinance institutions operating in Senegal.
CDP
Commission Nationale de Protection des Données Personnelles, Senegal's data-protection authority. Governs every identity verification on Senegalese residents under the national data-protection framework.
DGID
Direction Générale des Impôts et Domaines, tax authority operating the NINEA (Numéro d'Identification National des Entreprises et des Associations) registry used in KYB and corporate onboarding flows.
Four modules. One verification.
Capture and read the ID.
Captured on any phone, auto-classified, OCR-parsed, and template-verified.
- Carte Nationale d'Identité Biométrique (CNIB), Passeport Sénégalais (with the chip read on e-Passports), Permis de Conduire, Titre de Séjour for foreign residents, Carte d'Électeur, and the ECOWAS biometric card for citizens of other ECOWAS member states.
- Returns the name, document number, date of birth, place of issue, and expiry.
- Carte Nationale d'Identité Biométrique (CNIB)
- Passeport Sénégalais, chip read on e-Passport
- Permis de Conduire · Titre de Séjour · Carte d'Électeur · Carte CEDEAO
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.
Didit screens the user's name against the global pool of 1,300+ sanctions, Politically Exposed Persons (PEP), and adverse-media lists, plus every Senegalese and West African regional watchlist:
- National Assembly of Senegal, PEP register, Members of the National Assembly and senior legislative-branch officials (PEP Level 1).
- Ministry of Economy and Finance Senegal, Consolidated List, Senegal's national sanctions and designated-persons register.
- NDARINFO.COM Senegal, adverse-media signals, leading Senegalese investigative journalism outlet for negative-news screening.
- GIABA, Inter-Governmental Action Group Against Money Laundering in West Africa, West Africa's FATF-style regional body watchlist covering 16 ECOWAS member states.
- CENTIF, enforcement register, Senegal's FIU designations and enforcement actions.
- AU Commission, African Union sanctions registry, continental political and economic sanctions decisions.
- UN Security Council, Consolidated Sanctions List, global multilateral sanctions transposed by CENTIF.
- OFAC SDN, Specially Designated Nationals List, US Treasury designations with West Africa coverage.
- FATF, high-risk and monitored jurisdictions list, global regulatory-risk context.
- Interpol Africa, criminal-notice registry, cross-border wanted persons and criminal diffusions.
- Basel AML Index, Senegal risk signals, country-level risk context updated annually.
- ECOWAS, regional enforcement and designations, Economic Community of West African States cross-border enforcement registry.
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.
Cross-check the identity at scale.
Senegal does not currently expose a public government consumer API open to third-party integrators, no public database validation API exists for the Direction de l'Automatisation du Fichier's CNIB register.
- The OCR + biometric + AML stack is the authoritative CENTIF- and CDP-compliant path today: the CNIB document number is OCR-parsed from the biometric card, the face is matched against the document portrait, and the AML stage screens the extracted name against every Senegalese regulatory and GIABA regional watchlist.
- For phone, email, and address enrichment, pair the session with global Database Validation services that already work in Senegal today.
- A direct DAF authoritative-source lookup ships as CENTIF- and CDP-compliant data partners onboard, Enterprise customers can talk to sales to wire it into their workflow.
Cross-check the identity at scale , see the docs for the full module surface.
Every Senegal document Didit accepts.
Civil-registry and AML coverage for Senegal.
Open a new country in one click. We do the hard work.
Common questions about Senegal.
What does Didit ship?
Didit is the infrastructure layer for identity and fraud. One Application Programming Interface (API), 25+ composable modules across four product lines:
- User Verification (KYC, know your customer), Identity Document Verification, liveness, face match, Anti-Money Laundering (AML) screening, Internet Protocol (IP) analysis. $0.33 per full bundle.
- Business Verification (KYB, know your business), registry, Ultimate Beneficial Owner (UBO), officers, entity AML, plus a linked KYC session per UBO.
- Transaction Monitoring, real-time rule engine, case management, Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) workflow.
- Wallet Screening (KYT, know your transaction), on-chain wallet risk at $0.15 per check, or bring your own screening provider and run it inside Didit.
Compose any module into a workflow with the visual no-code builder, ship in 5 minutes, 500 verifications free every month, forever.
How is Didit different from a single-product Know Your Customer (KYC) vendor?
Most identity vendors sell one slice, a KYC check, an Anti-Money Laundering (AML) list, a wallet screen. Didit ships the infrastructure underneath all of them, and the gap shows up on six axes:
- Pricing. Public price on every module, $0.33 for a full KYC, 500 verifications free every month, no minimums, no contracts. Single-product vendors hide six-figure minimums behind a sales call.
- Access. Sandbox in one click, self-serve from day one, production keys on signup. Single-product vendors gate the sandbox behind a contract, months to evaluate.
- Developer experience. Public docs, a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for Claude Code and Cursor, and native Software Development Kits (SDKs) for Web, iOS, Android, React Native, and Flutter. Integrate in 5 minutes with an AI agent or in a working afternoon by hand.
- User experience. Highest pass rates in the market, sub-2-second end-to-end inference, country-specialised capture flows, 48+ languages out of the box.
- Flexibility. One
/v3/Application Programming Interface (API) composes 25+ modules across KYC, Know Your Business (KYB), Transaction Monitoring, and Wallet Screening (KYT, know your transaction). A KYB session spawns a linked KYC for every Ultimate Beneficial Owner (UBO); a flagged transaction spawns a step-up KYC remediation, same session, same webhook contract, same audit trail. Single-product vendors sell one shape of KYC and stop there. - AI-era fraud. 200+ real-time fraud signals scored on every session, deepfake, injection, synthetic-ID, document forgery, face-morph, device intelligence, replay. Single-product vendors treat deepfake and injection detection as roadmap items, not defaults.
Common in fintech and crypto, the same architecture fits marketplaces, iGaming, mobility, and any vertical where you need to know who someone is and what they are doing.
What does it cost? Is anything actually free?
500 verifications free every month, forever, on every account. No credit card. No sales call. No expiry.
Above the free tier, every module has a public per-success price on didit.me/pricing, $0.33 per full KYC bundle, $0.15 per Identity Document Verification, $0.15 per Wallet Screening, $0.20 per Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Screening, $0.10 per liveness, $0.05 per face match, $0.03 per Internet Protocol (IP) analysis.
Pay-as-you-go, no minimums, no overage surprises. Volume discounts kick in automatically as you grow.
Which Senegalese regulator covers identity verification on a digital onboarding?
Five sit on top of every Senegalese identity-verification flow:
- Banque Centrale des États de l'Afrique de l'Ouest (BCEAO), supervises banks, electronic-money issuers, microfinance institutions, and payment service providers across the WAEMU zone under BCEAO Instruction n°008-05-2015.
- Cellule Nationale de Traitement des Informations Financières (CENTIF), Senegal's Financial Intelligence Unit. Receives Déclarations d'Opérations Suspectes and coordinates with GIABA on regional AML/CFT enforcement under the GIABA/WAEMU AML framework.
- Commission Bancaire de l'UMOA, prudential supervisor for banking groups operating in Senegal.
- Commission Nationale de Protection des Données Personnelles (CDP), Senegal's data-protection authority. Governs how verification data on Senegalese residents is captured, stored, and disclosed.
- Direction Générale des Impôts et Domaines (DGID), operates the NINEA registry used in KYB and corporate onboarding.
Didit ships the hosted flow + the audit log + the watchlist coverage to satisfy all five at the same time, same POST /v3/session/ workflow, same JSON report, same SOC 2 Type 1 + ISO/IEC 27001 evidence pack.
Does Didit screen against Senegalese CENTIF sanctions and GIABA watchlists?
Yes, on every AML Screening call.
- Didit screens names against the global pool of 1,300+ sanctions, PEP, and adverse-media lists.
- Plus every Senegalese and regional list CENTIF expects an obliged entity to monitor, National Assembly of Senegal PEP register, Ministry of Economy and Finance Consolidated List, GIABA West Africa watchlist, and ECOWAS regional enforcement register.
- AML Screening costs
$0.20per check; Ongoing AML monitoring costs$0.07 per user / yearand re-checks every customer daily, what CENTIF-obliged institutions need for the periodic-review obligation under the GIABA/WAEMU AML framework.
Does Didit support onboarding for BCEAO-licensed e-money issuers and mobile-money operators in Senegal?
Yes, the full Didit stack maps directly onto BCEAO Instruction n°008-05-2015 requirements for electronic-money issuers and payment service providers.
- Identity Document Verification + Passive Liveness + Face Match 1:1 for Simplified Due Diligence and Standard Due Diligence tiers.
- AML Screening ($0.20 per check) against every CENTIF, GIABA, and WAEMU watchlist the BCEAO expects.
- Ongoing AML monitoring ($0.07 per user / year) for the periodic-review obligation.
- The hosted flow ships in French and Wolof, auto-detected from the user's device, for the highest pass rates across Senegalese mobile-money users.
Didit supports Wave, Orange Money, and comparable e-money operator stacks on the same POST /v3/session/ workflow, same JSON report, same SOC 2 Type 1 + ISO/IEC 27001 evidence pack.
How long does it take to integrate Didit in Senegal?
5 minutes to a working sandbox, a weekend to a production flow.
- Sign up at
business.didit.me, grab an API key, callPOST /v3/session/with aworkflow_idthat wires ID Verification + Passive Liveness + Face Match + AML, done. - AI-agent path: paste the integration prompt at
docs.didit.me/integration/integration-promptinto Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Devin, Aider, or Replit Agent. The agent provisions the application, builds the workflow, wires the webhook, and runs a smoke test. - Five SDKs share the same session model: Web, iOS, Android, React Native, Flutter.
The first 500 verifications every month are free, forever, pilot the full Senegal stack at zero cost before flipping production traffic.
Which language does the hosted verification flow use for Senegalese users?
French, auto-detected from the user's browser / device locale. The hosted UI ships in 48+ languages; Senegalese users land on the French flow by default, and Wolof-speaking users are served via the auto-detection layer.
The document-recognition layer is decoupled from the UI layer, capture works in any language, and the admin console can be set independently to whichever language your compliance team prefers.
What does the Senegal verification cost end-to-end?
Per-module public pricing, pay only for what runs on the session:
- ID Verification,
$0.15per document check. - Passive Liveness,
$0.10. Active Liveness,$0.15. - Face Match 1:1,
$0.05. Face Search 1:N, free. - AML Screening,
$0.20per check. Ongoing AML,$0.07 per user / year.
The full KYC bundle (Identity + Passive Liveness + Face Match + IP Analysis) is `$0.33`, same anchor price worldwide, no Senegal surcharge. 500 verifications free every month, no credit card. Volume discounts auto-apply above the free tier; Enterprise adds a custom Master Services Agreement (MSA) and data-residency choice.
Infrastructure for identity and fraud.
One API for KYC, KYB, Transaction Monitoring, and Wallet Screening. Integrate in 5 minutes.