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Gambling in the Republic of Guinea (Guinea-Conakry) is organised around a state-owned operator, the Loterie Nationale de Guinée (LONAGUI), and, since 2023, a separate regulator, the Autorité de régulation du secteur des jeux et pratiques assimilées (ARSJPA). The legal basis consists mainly of presidential decrees rather than a parliamentary gambling statute. A decree of May 2022 gave LONAGUI exclusive rights over lotteries and sports betting sold through the physical retail network, while online betting has remained a separate, contract-based segment supervised by the regulator. Much of the reform took place under the military-led transition that began in September 2021 and ended formally with the inauguration of an elected president in January 2026.
Key points
- There is no comprehensive gambling act. The sector rests on a decree of 28 March 2000 creating a public lottery company, a 2009 implementing order, and a series of presidential decrees adopted in 2016, 2022 and 2023.
- A presidential decree announced on 13 May 2022 gave LONAGUI the exclusive right to organise and operate lotteries and sports betting sold through the physical distribution network. LONAGUI took over that network on 13 August 2022.
- A decree announced on 28 January 2023 created the ARSJPA as a public administrative body under the technical supervision of the Presidency and the financial supervision of the finance ministry. Its remit includes authorising games, supervising online betting and fighting illegal sites.
- Online betting is offered by LONAGUI and by privately owned operators holding authorisations from the regulator. The ARSJPA ordered two online operators to close from 1 January 2024.
- No published source found for this guide makes it an offence for an individual to place bets, and no national self-exclusion scheme or gambling helpline could be identified.
Last reviewed: 13 October 2026.
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Historical development
LONAGUI’s origins lie in a decree of 28 March 2000, which created a public company responsible for organising, managing and operating all forms of lottery, games, betting and similar activities in Guinea. That decree is cited in Guinéenews’ report on the 2022 exclusivity decree. Guinéenews described the only implementing text, in December 2023, as an order (arrêté) of 2009 that set minimal standards for LONAGUI and its partners (Guinéenews, 31 December 2023). LONAGUI’s company statutes were later set by decree D/2016/153/PRG/SGG of 26 May 2016, amended by decree D/2022/0103/PRG/CNRD/SGG of 17 February 2022 (Guinéenews, 29 January 2023).
For much of this period LONAGUI acted more as a supervising body than as an operator, while private companies ran the main products under concessions. In 2019 the then Director General described LONAGUI as already regulating casino and similar games. On 5 August 2019, when a ten-year concession for horse-race betting (PMU, pari mutuel urbain, a pool-betting system on mainly French races) expired, LONAGUI took over PMU operations directly. It hired 152 staff from the outgoing operator and signed agreements with more than 1,400 resellers (Guinéenews, 3 August 2019). At the inauguration of LONAGUI’s new headquarters in Kaloum in December 2019, it reported paying about GNF 28 billion to bettors and transferring more than GNF 5 billion to the public treasury in its first four months of PMU operation. It also announced plans for sports betting through a mobile app and website with private partners (Guinéenews, 7 December 2019).
Lottery and sports betting sold in shops and kiosks remained in private hands under a long-standing concession. After the military takeover of 5 September 2021, the transitional authorities moved to bring that segment under state control, through the May 2022 decree described below. A sponsored article published in July 2022 quoted a jurist who argued that the state could terminate a public-service concession in the general interest and that a concession created by decree could be ended by decree. The same article reported that unnamed critics considered the procedure illegal and that the previous operator and its resellers feared for about 5,000 indirect jobs, a loss LONAGUI disputed (Guinéenews, 31 July 2022).
Legal framework
Decrees rather than a gambling act
Guinea’s gambling law is mostly made up of executive texts. No statute comparable to the gambling acts of neighbouring francophone states could be found for this guide, and Guinéenews reported in December 2023 that the newly created regulator had no legal framework to guide its regulatory work. The main texts identified are:
- Decree of 28 March 2000, creating the public lottery company with a general mandate over lotteries, games, betting and similar activities.
- Order of 2009, described in the press as the only implementing text, setting minimal standards for LONAGUI and its partners.
- Decree D/2016/153/PRG/SGG of 26 May 2016, setting LONAGUI’s statutes, amended by decree D/2022/0103/PRG/CNRD/SGG of 17 February 2022. Both were repealed by the 2023 statutes.
- Decree of 13 May 2022 on LONAGUI’s exclusivity, read on national television. Its number was not given in the published report.
- Decrees of January 2023 creating the ARSJPA and adopting new LONAGUI statutes, also read on national television on 28 January 2023. Their numbers were not published in the report consulted.
The official gazette (Journal officiel de la République de Guinée) does not appear to be available in a searchable online form. The texts above are therefore described from press reports of the decrees as read on national television, rather than from the gazette itself.
The 2022 exclusivity decree
According to Guinéenews’ account of the decree, Article 1 reaffirmed LONAGUI’s mandate, under the 2000 decree, to organise, manage and operate all forms of lottery, games and betting in Guinea. Article 2 provided that, from the decree’s entry into force, all forms of lottery, “in particular sports betting, marketed through a physical distribution network” would be organised and operated exclusively by LONAGUI throughout Guinea. Article 3 gave organisers and operators of such games three months to comply, with non-compliance subject to the penalties of existing regulations. Contracts that had not reached their expiry date when the decree came into force were excluded from Articles 2 and 3. LONAGUI took over exclusive operation of lottery and betting distribution on 13 August 2022 (Guinéenews, 18 August 2023).
The wording matters. The exclusivity covers products sold through the physical retail network. It does not, on the reported text, extend to online betting, which is why privately owned online sportsbooks continued to operate under authorisations after 2022.
Criminal law
Guinea adopted a new Penal Code by Law No. 059 of October 2016, the text of which is published by the Supreme Court of Guinea. The explanatory memorandum to the February 2016 draft of the code stated that it would create offences to cover activities that had gone unpunished, including gaming houses and lotteries. The specific articles and penalties in the adopted code could not be checked for this guide, because the full text could not be retrieved. No reported prosecution for unlawful gambling was found.
Regulator and licensing model
The ARSJPA
The decree read on 28 January 2023 created the ARSJPA as a public administrative body (établissement public administratif) with legal personality and financial and management autonomy. Technical supervision lies with the Presidency of the Republic and financial supervision with the ministry responsible for finance (Guinéenews, 29 January 2023). Its stated missions are to:
- organise, regulate, supervise and control games of chance and similar practices;
- authorise all games of chance and similar practices in Guinea, and check compliance with laws, regulations and the obligations attached to authorisations or agreements;
- protect users and operators and ensure fair competition;
- inform operators and users and check operators’ measures against excessive gambling;
- supervise online games and bets, and take part in the fight against illegal sites and fraud;
- audit financial flows in the sector and contribute to anti-money-laundering efforts; and
- advise the state on draft laws and regulations and publish an annual activity report.
The regulator is governed by a board of directors, a general directorate and an accounting agency. Its first Director General was appointed by decree in March 2023 (Guinéenews, 24 March 2023). On 15 May 2024 a further decree named the board. It is chaired by a deputy director general of the tax administration and includes officials from the security, territorial administration, youth and finance ministries, the state digitalisation agency, the telecommunications regulator (ARPT) and an independent consultant. It also includes the country director of a betting company, so that a representative of a regulated operator sits on the regulator’s board (Guinéenews, 16 May 2024).
LONAGUI
Under its 2023 statutes LONAGUI is a single-shareholder public limited company (société anonyme unipersonnelle) owned by the state, under the same supervision as the regulator (Guinéenews, 29 January 2023). It sells lottery products, PMU horse-race betting and sports betting. According to SiGMA News (21 September 2026), LONAGUI reports 8,000 points of sale, 20 agencies and 43 commercial partners, with 237 direct jobs and about 9,000 indirect jobs.
How the model works
Guinea therefore has a mixed model. Land-based lottery and sports betting through retail outlets are reserved to the state operator, a monopoly in the sense of a single lawful provider. Other segments, notably online betting, are open to private operators that obtain an authorisation or agreement from the regulator, which is a form of licensing. The terms of these authorisations are not published. A sponsored article written on behalf of the ARSJPA in October 2023 stated that:
- operators pay licence fees for each market segment, with 80% going to the public treasury and 20% to socio-cultural, sports and local development activities;
- no gaming company may be wholly foreign-owned, and Guinean nationals must hold at least 25% of the capital under a specifications document (cahier des charges);
- shareholders are vetted and bank guarantees are required; and
- an agreement with the ARPT allows real-time monitoring of online gaming companies (Guinéenews, 11 October 2023).
These statements are the regulator’s own account and have not been independently confirmed. No public register of authorised operators, licence fees or number of licensees was found.
Casinos
The 2019 description of LONAGUI as a regulator of casino games indicates that casino gaming has existed under a lottery-supervised regime. However, no official or reliable press source could be found that lists casinos currently operating in Conakry or sets out the rules for them. This guide therefore makes no statement about the number or status of land-based casinos.
Online gambling and enforcement
Online betting in Guinea is mainly sports betting on mobile phones, often funded through mobile money. It developed largely outside the scope of the 2022 retail exclusivity. LONAGUI entered digital gaming in 2022 with an online platform. In September 2026 it set out three digital priorities: modernising its products, including online platforms such as LonaguiBet and virtual games, cybersecurity for players’ data and payments, and “digital sovereignty”, meaning greater national control of the technology and financial flows of the sector (SiGMA News, 21 September 2026).
Privately owned online operators also serve the market under agreements with the regulator. The most significant enforcement action found was reported by Guinéenews on 31 December 2023: the ARSJPA decided to close two online betting operators from 1 January 2024, citing “breaches and malfunctions”. On the same date it authorised a private company to run physical games, which the article described as a field previously reserved to LONAGUI by presidential decree. Both online operators objected to their closure, and an anonymous LONAGUI employee accused the regulator of favouring a private competitor. The regulator had not responded when the article was published. The outcome of these disputes could not be traced.
The ARSJPA’s mandate includes fighting illegal sites, and it says it monitors online operators in real time with the telecommunications regulator. However, no published list of blocked websites, no order to internet service providers to block access (ISP blocking) and no measure restricting payments to unauthorised operators (payment blocking) could be found. No specific rules on gambling advertising were identified.
No online casino authorisation regime was found. The authorisations described in the sources concern lotteries, PMU and sports betting. Whether a private operator could lawfully offer online casino games to residents, and on what terms, is not addressed in any public text consulted.
Position of players
The texts and reports reviewed for this guide set rules for operators. None of them states that a person who bets with an unauthorised or foreign operator commits an offence, and no prosecution or fine of a player was found. This should not be read as confirmation that such play is lawful. The adopted 2016 Penal Code could not be checked in full, and the regulator’s mandate covers the fight against illegal sites.
Bets with LONAGUI and with operators authorised by the ARSJPA are lawful. LONAGUI pays large prizes publicly: in September 2025 it handed over a jackpot of GNF 1.64 billion, described as one of the largest in Guinean gambling (Guinéenews, 27 September 2025). In December 2025 two PMU players each received GNF 180,364,500 from a special year-end jackpot (Guinéenews, 30 December 2025). No statutory minimum age for gambling was found in the sources, although LONAGUI’s Director General said in 2023 that preventing gambling by minors was a priority (Guinéenews, 18 August 2023).
Taxation
Information on gambling taxation is limited. The draft General Tax Code published by the Ministry of Budget contains a chapter titled “Taxe sur les jeux de hasard” (tax on games of chance) under the heading of other taxes and duties. Its rates could not be read from the published document, and its status as a draft means it should not be relied on as the law in force. No source was found that sets out a withholding tax or income tax on players’ winnings.
What can be documented is the flow of money from LONAGUI and the regulator:
- In its first eleven months of exclusive operation (1 September 2022 to 31 July 2023), LONAGUI reported sales of GNF 1,506 billion. It paid GNF 1,012 billion (67%) to bettors and nearly GNF 150 billion in commissions to resellers. It paid nearly GNF 73 billion to the state in royalties, taxes and other contributions. Sales were described as more than five times the 2021 figures of the previous operators (Guinéenews, 18 August 2023).
- Operators authorised by the ARSJPA pay licence fees for each segment, with 80% reported to go to the treasury (Guinéenews, 11 October 2023).
- Article 59 of the decree creating the ARSJPA provides for a regulatory levy (redevance) to fund the regulator. In January 2025 LONAGUI was reported to be refusing to pay it, arguing that the decree did not define its base, rate or collection method and that the regulator’s own implementing decision lacked legal authority. The dispute had not been resolved by a binding act at the time of the report (Guinéenews, 31 January 2025).
LONAGUI also spends money on community projects. It reports more than 88 socio-cultural projects and more than GNF 45 billion in community spending since January 2023 (SiGMA News, 21 September 2026).
Consumer protection and responsible gambling
Guinea has no national self-exclusion register (a list of people who have asked to be barred from gambling), no statutory deposit or loss limits and no dedicated gambling helpline that could be identified for this guide. Protection relies mainly on general commitments:
- The ARSJPA’s founding decree tasks it with informing operators and users and checking operators’ measures against excessive gambling (Guinéenews, 29 January 2023).
- In August 2023 LONAGUI’s Director General set out responsible-gaming commitments: preventing gambling by minors and gambling addiction, identifying and supporting vulnerable people, and helping winners manage their gains (Guinéenews, 18 August 2023).
- From 5 to 9 October 2026 an ARSJPA delegation studied regulatory practice in Côte d’Ivoire, including a meeting on 7 October at the headquarters of the national lottery, LONACI, where the ARSJPA’s Deputy Director General spoke. The topics included operator supervision, compliance, addiction prevention, responsible gambling and anti-money laundering (Focus Gaming News, 9 October 2026). No resulting measures had been announced at the time of writing.
Gambling by young people is a recurring concern. A 2021 report from Conakry described street kiosks offering football betting, evening lottery draws and hourly games, with young graduates without jobs among the most frequent players. One student described gambling as a way to meet basic needs, and the author linked the trend to high unemployment (Le360 Afrique, 13 November 2021). No national prevalence survey of gambling or problem gambling in Guinea was found. General guidance is available in our responsible gambling guide.
Recent and upcoming developments
- Regulator (2023–2024). The ARSJPA was created in January 2023; its board was appointed in May 2024.
- Closure of two online operators (2024). Effective 1 January 2024, according to Guinéenews. The later outcome could not be traced.
- Levy dispute (2025). In January 2025 LONAGUI was reported to be refusing the ARSJPA regulatory levy for lack of a defined legal basis. No later resolution was found.
- End of the transition (2026). Guineans approved a new constitution in September 2025, and General Mamadi Doumbouya, who led the 2021 takeover, was sworn in as elected president on 17 January 2026 (Al Jazeera, 18 January 2026). The decrees adopted during the transition remain the basis of the gambling framework. No gambling bill before the legislature was found.
- Modernisation (2026). In July 2026 LONAGUI took part in talks with PMU France in Paris on modernising horse-race betting (Focus Gaming News, 10 July 2026). In September 2026 it published its digital priorities, including expansion of online and virtual games.
- Regulatory cooperation (2026). No new rules had been published after the ARSJPA’s October 2026 study visit to Côte d’Ivoire.
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Sources and further reading
- Guinéenews (T. Doré), Loterie/Doumbouya donne l’exclusivité à la LONAGUI : les organisateurs de jeu ont trois mois pour s’y conformer (14 May 2022).
- Guinéenews (T. S. Diallo), Jeux de hasard : création de l’ARSJPA et changement des statuts de la LONAGUI (décrets) (29 January 2023).
- Guinéenews (S. Sanoh), Décrets : les DG de l’ARSJPA et du FER nommés par le Colonel Mamadi Doumbouya (24 March 2023).
- Guinéenews (A. Bah), Loterie : en un an d’exploitation, la LONAGUI a distribué 1 012 milliards GNF aux parieurs (18 August 2023).
- Guinéenews (sponsored content for the ARSJPA), Secteur des jeux : l’ARSJPA dans la dynamique de la refondation et de la transparence (11 October 2023).
- Guinéenews, Jeux de hasard en Guinée : l’autorité de régulation ARSJPA (title abridged) (31 December 2023).
- Guinéenews (M. Doré), Décret : les membres du Conseil d’administration de l’ARSJPA nommés (16 May 2024).
- Guinéenews, LONAGUI : quand la Direction Générale refuse de payer une redevance illégale (31 January 2025).
- Guinéenews, Loterie : la LONAGUI prend les rênes du PMU Guinée (3 August 2019).
- Guinéenews, Conakry : le président de la République inaugure le nouveau siège de la LONAGUI (7 December 2019).
- Guinéenews (sponsored content), LONAGUI : l’État peut valablement résilier la concession pour l’intérêt général, dixit le juriste Dr Makanera Kaké (title abridged) (31 July 2022).
- Guinéenews (A. Bah), LONAGUI : un jackpot historique de 1,64 milliard GNF décroché (27 September 2025).
- Guinéenews, LONAGUI : deux parieurs empochent plus de 180 millions de francs guinéens chacun (30 December 2025).
- SiGMA News, La LONAGUI fixe ses priorités numériques pour le marché des paris en Guinée (21 September 2026).
- Focus Gaming News, Guinea’s National Lottery joins PMU France talks on modernising horse-race betting (10 July 2026).
- Focus Gaming News, Guinea gaming regulator draws on Côte d’Ivoire lottery expertise (9 October 2026).
- Le360 Afrique (M. M. Souaré), La loterie et les jeux en tous genres, le pari risqué des jeunes Guinéens (13 November 2021).
- Ministère du Budget, République de Guinée, Projet de Code général des impôts de la République de Guinée (accessed 13 October 2026).
- Cour suprême de la République de Guinée, Loi 059 portant Code pénal, octobre 2016 (accessed 13 October 2026).
- République de Guinée, Projet de Code pénal, exposé des motifs (February 2016) (accessed 13 October 2026).
- Al Jazeera, Military leader Doumbouya sworn in as Guinea’s president (18 January 2026).
