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Central African Republic

Central Africa · XAF (FCFA) · dial code +236 · French, Sango

Local currency

XAF

Phone numbers

+23670012345

National ID

CNI: coming

Available in Central African Republic

• ✓Phone verification (SMS OTP)
• ✓SMS and bulk SMS
• ✓Document OCR and verification
• ✓Liveness detection
• ✓Face match
• ✓Address verification
• ✓Verification Suite (applicant links and embed)
• ✓Website audit
• ✓Domain verification
• ✓AI content detection
• ✓Video and voice calls
• ✓Live streaming
• ✓Chat
• ✓WhatsApp assistant and platform
• ✓File tools (PDF, images, audio)
• ✓Short links
• ✓QR codes
• ✓Video meetings

Nigeria only

These read Nigerian identity, banking and utility records, so they do not work for Central African Republic. Calling them for another country returns 403 not_available_in_country:

• ●BVN verification
• ●NIN verification
• ●Driver's licence (FRSC)
• ●Bank account name check
• ●BVN to account match
• ●CAC business registry check
• ●Credit bureau score
• ●Bills (airtime, data, electricity, TV)
• ●Business payment gateway (collections)

{
  "error": {
    "code": "not_available_in_country",
    "message": "BVN verification is only available for Nigeria. ...",
    "status": 403
  }
}

Coming: CNI verification

A Central African Republic-specific identity check against the CNI (Ministry of Interior) is planned. Until it launches, you can verify people in Central African Republic with document OCR, liveness and face match, which work with any passport, national ID or driver's licence photo.

Prices in XAF

Your balance is held in naira. Prices below are converted at ₦2.2832 per XAF, rounded up. Top-ups in XAF are credited at the same rate.

Phone number format

Central African Republic mobile numbers are written locally as 70 01 23 45 and internationally as +23670012345. There is no national 0 prefix to remove; we add +236 in front of what you send.

curl -X POST https://api.identifyorg.com/v1/phone/verify/start \
  -H "X-IdentifyOrg-Key: io_live_xxxx" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{ "phone": "+23670012345" }'

# The same number in local format needs the country:
curl -X POST https://api.identifyorg.com/v1/phone/verify/start \
  -H "X-IdentifyOrg-Key: io_live_xxxx" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{ "phone": "70012345", "country": "CF" }'

const res = await fetch("https://api.identifyorg.com/v1/phone/verify/start", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: { "X-IdentifyOrg-Key": process.env.IDENTIFYORG_KEY, "Content-Type": "application/json" },
  body: JSON.stringify({ phone: "70012345", country: "CF" }), // or phone: "+23670012345"
});
const { id } = await res.json(); // then POST /v1/phone/verify/check with { id, code }

import os, requests

r = requests.post(
    "https://api.identifyorg.com/v1/phone/verify/start",
    headers={"X-IdentifyOrg-Key": os.environ["IDENTIFYORG_KEY"]},
    json={"phone": "+23670012345"},
)
verification_id = r.json()["id"]

Topping up your balance

Card payments and mobile money (Orange Money) in XAF, converted to your naira balance at the rate shown when you pay. Provider availability is set per country, and cards in US dollars are the fallback where a local-currency option is not open yet.