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South Sudan Online Casino Guide

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South Sudan does not have a dedicated gambling statute, a gambling regulator or a published licensing system for online casinos. Gambling is nevertheless not prohibited outright. The Penal Code Act 2008 makes it an offence to keep a public gaming house or a lottery office without a licence or permission from the appropriate authority, which implies that licensed premises can exist. According to a summary by the professional services firm EY, the Financial Act 2024/2025 has since December 2024 also imposed specific taxes and fees on lottery and gaming, including a gross gaming tax and fees for licensing and inspecting betting and lottery operations. Betting shops are a visible feature of Juba, and lawmakers have called for tighter controls.

Key points

Section 340 of the Penal Code Act 2008 criminalises keeping, or assisting in, a public gaming house or lottery office without a licence or permission from the appropriate authority; the penalty is up to six months’ imprisonment, a fine, or both.
According to EY, the Financial Act 2024/2025, in force from 2 December 2024, introduced a 10% excise tax and a 24% gross gaming tax on lottery and gaming, a 20% royalty on platform vendors and service providers, and fees for licensing and inspecting betting and lottery operations.
No gambling regulator, gaming board or public register of licensed operators could be identified. Taxes are administered by the South Sudan Revenue Authority (formerly the National Revenue Authority).
No law specifically addresses online gambling, and no national self-exclusion scheme or gambling helpline was found.
International sanctions on South Sudan are targeted: a UN arms embargo and travel and financial measures against listed persons, with parallel US, EU and UK designations. They are not a comprehensive trade or financial embargo.

Last reviewed: 14 October 2026.

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Historical development

South Sudan became independent from Sudan on 9 July 2011, following a referendum held in January 2011 under the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement, and was admitted to the United Nations as its 193rd member on 14 July 2011 (UN Audiovisual Library). A Revitalised Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in South Sudan was signed on 12 September 2018 (statement of the UN Secretary-General’s spokesperson, 13 September 2018).

The country’s criminal law predates independence. The Penal Code Act 2008 was enacted by the semi-autonomous Government of Southern Sudan and published in the Southern Sudan Gazette in February 2009 (text held by UNODC SHERLOC). Section 2 of the Act repealed the earlier Penal Code Act 2003, and UNODC holds the 2008 Act as South Sudan’s penal code. Its approach to gambling differs markedly from that of the Republic of Sudan, where, according to the CMS expert guide to gambling laws in Africa (2023), Sudanese laws prohibit gambling both as individual conduct and as an investment. South Sudanese law instead treats unlicensed gaming houses and lottery offices as the offence, rather than gambling as such.

In June 2023 a member of the national parliament told the House that betting centres had multiplied in several neighbourhoods of the capital, that children were spending school-fee and lunch money on bets, and that betting was contributing to school drop-outs (Eye Radio, 13 June 2023). The Speaker replied that a motion to regulate betting and gambling had already been tabled and would be brought to the House for debate. No later record of that motion being debated or adopted could be found.

Legal framework

Penal Code Act 2008

The central criminal provision is section 340 of the Penal Code Act 2008, headed “Keeping Gaming House or Lottery Office”. It applies to anyone who “keeps any house or place whereto the public are admitted for the purpose of playing any game of chance”, or keeps any office or place for drawing a lottery, or assists in conducting such a house, place or office, “without license, or permission from the appropriate authority”. On conviction the offender “shall be sentenced to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months with a fine or with both”.

Three features of the provision matter for understanding the legal position:

It targets premises, not play. The offence is keeping or assisting in a gaming house or lottery office open to the public. The section does not make it an offence merely to place a bet or play a game of chance.
It contemplates authorisation. The words “without license, or permission” mean that a gaming house or lottery office operating with the required permission falls outside the offence.
It does not name the authority. Section 340 refers only to “the appropriate authority”. No statute was found that designates a gaming licensing body or sets out a licensing procedure.

The Penal Code was drafted for physical premises and does not mention remote or online gambling. No reported case applying section 340 to an online service was found.

Financial Act 2024/2025

The second relevant instrument is a fiscal one. The South Sudan Financial Act 2024/2025 was passed by the Transitional National Legislative Assembly on 9 September 2024, assented to on 25 November 2024 and, according to a circular of the South Sudan Revenue Authority, took effect on 2 December 2024 (EY Global Tax News, 16 December 2024; KPMG East Africa, 2025). EY reports that the Act “introduced fees and taxes on lottery and gaming”, including fees “for application, registration, licensing and inspection of betting and lottery operations”. The rates are set out under Taxation below.

The Financial Act therefore presupposes that betting and lottery operations can be licensed. However, the published summaries do not identify which body grants those licences, what the fees are, or what conditions apply, and no implementing regulations or licensing guidance could be found online. The legal framework is thus best described as a criminal prohibition on unlicensed gaming premises combined with a tax regime, without a published regulatory code.

Other measures

Local administrators have also acted on their own authority. In December 2025 the commissioner of Gogrial East County in Warrap State banned dominoes and similar games and warned that young people found playing them or loitering during productive hours would be sent to join brick-making teams (Sudans Post, 12 December 2025). In May 2026 the commissioner of Bor County in Jonglei State suspended social activities, including playing dominoes and cards, for the farming season, with a fine of SSP 500,000 and work on government farms for violators (Eye Radio, 16 May 2026); that order was not framed as a gambling measure. Neither report cites a statutory basis for the orders.

Regulator and licensing model

South Sudan has no gambling commission, gaming board or other body whose function is to regulate gambling. The only national institution with a defined role is the South Sudan Revenue Authority (SSRA), which administers the taxes created by the Financial Act. The SSRA was previously called the National Revenue Authority; Parliament renamed it when it passed the National Revenue Authority Act 2016 (Amendment) Bill 2023 (Radio Tamazuj).

The model can be summarised as follows:

Land-based gaming houses and lotteries: lawful only with a licence or permission from an unspecified “appropriate authority” (Penal Code, s. 340).
Betting and lottery operations: subject to licensing and inspection fees and to specific taxes under the Financial Act 2024/2025; the licensing body and procedure are not publicly documented.
Online gambling: no licensing category, no regulator and no published list of authorised online operators.

No official figures on licensed betting shops, lottery operators or gaming machine venues could be found, and no national lottery or state-owned gambling operator was identified.

Online gambling

No South Sudanese statute expressly permits, licenses or prohibits online gambling. The Penal Code’s gaming-house offence is framed around physical premises to which the public are admitted, and the Financial Act’s gaming provisions, as reported, do not distinguish between land-based and online channels. The scope of the royalty on “platform vendors/service providers” could not be confirmed, as the text of the Act was not available online.

No evidence was found of the measures used elsewhere to control offshore gambling, such as blocklists of unlicensed websites, directions to internet service providers, payment blocking or rules on gambling advertising. No enforcement action against an online operator was found in official or reputable news sources.

International sanctions are relevant to payments only indirectly. The measures described below are targeted at listed persons and at arms transfers, not at ordinary commerce. Separately, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), the intergovernmental standard-setter on anti-money-laundering, keeps South Sudan on its list of jurisdictions under increased monitoring; in June 2026 it noted South Sudan’s “limited progress across its action plan with all deadlines now expired” (FATF, 19 June 2026).

Position of players

Section 340 of the Penal Code is aimed at those who keep or assist in running a public gaming house or lottery office. It does not create an offence of gambling as a customer, and no other national provision making participation in gambling an offence was found. No prosecutions or fines of players under national law were found in official or reputable news sources.

Local administrative orders can still reach players: the Gogrial East order of December 2025, described above, threatened young people found playing dominoes and similar games during productive hours with assignment to brick-making work. The legal basis of such orders is not stated in the reports.

Taxation

According to EY Global Tax News (16 December 2024), the Financial Act 2024/2025 introduced the following charges on lottery and gaming, effective from 2 December 2024. These rates could not be independently corroborated: the KPMG summary of the Act confirms its assent and commencement dates but does not mention gaming, and the text of the Act and the Revenue Authority’s circular were not available in readable form.

Charge	Rate or basis
Excise tax on lottery and gaming	10%
Gross gaming tax	24%
Royalty on platform vendors/service providers	20%
Application, registration, licensing and inspection fees for betting and lottery operations	Amounts not stated in the published summaries

Gross gaming tax is usually levied on gross gaming revenue (GGR), meaning stakes received less winnings paid out. The published summaries do not define the base, and it could not be confirmed whether the 10% excise and the 24% gross gaming tax are cumulative or apply to different activities. EY also notes that before the Act “only a 20% WHT was payable on payments relating to lottery and gaming”. Withholding tax (WHT) is tax deducted at source by the payer.

No official information was found on whether players’ winnings are taxed in their hands, or on how the earlier 20% withholding interacts with the new charges. Revenue from the new charges has not been published.

Consumer protection and responsible gambling

South Sudan has no national self-exclusion scheme, no statutory player-protection rules, no gambling helpline and no dedicated support organisation that could be identified. There are no published rules on age limits for betting, deposit limits, advertising or the conduct of betting shops.

Anyone concerned about their own or another person’s gambling can find general guidance on recognising problem gambling and on practical tools such as limits and blocking software in our responsible gambling guide.

International sanctions

South Sudan is subject to targeted sanctions, not to a comprehensive embargo. The UN regime was established by Security Council resolution 2206 (2015) and is overseen by the 2206 Sanctions Committee. It consists of a travel ban and an asset freeze on individuals and entities designated by the Committee, and an arms embargo on the supply of arms and related materiel to the territory of South Sudan. The arms embargo was first imposed by resolution 2428 of 13 July 2018 (UN list of 2206 resolutions).

The measures have been renewed annually. Resolution 2781, adopted on 30 May 2025 with nine votes in favour and six abstentions (Radio Tamazuj), extended them to 31 May 2026. Resolution 2821, adopted on 29 May 2026, renewed the travel, financial and arms measures until 31 May 2027 and extended the mandate of the UN Panel of Experts to 1 July 2027 (UN list of 2206 resolutions).

Parallel national and regional regimes are also targeted:

United States: the OFAC South Sudan-related sanctions programme rests on Executive Order 13664 of 3 April 2014, “Blocking Property of Certain Persons with Respect to South Sudan”, and the South Sudan Sanctions Regulations (31 CFR Part 558). It blocks the property of designated persons.
European Union: Council Regulation (EU) 2015/735 of 7 May 2015 concerning restrictive measures in respect of the situation in South Sudan.
United Kingdom: The South Sudan (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019. UK government guidance states that the regime is limited in scope to designated persons (asset freeze, travel ban and other measures) and to trade restrictions on military and related goods.

As described in the official sources, these regimes are aimed at designated persons and at military goods rather than being general trade or financial embargoes. This summary is not legal advice.

Recent and upcoming developments

June 2023 – call for regulation. A national MP asked Parliament to regulate betting, citing school drop-outs; the Speaker said a motion on regulating betting and gambling had been tabled. Its later status could not be verified.
2 December 2024 – gaming taxes in force. According to EY, the Financial Act 2024/2025 introduced excise, gross gaming tax, a platform royalty and licensing and inspection fees for betting and lottery operations.
December 2025 and May 2026 – county orders. Commissioners in Gogrial East (Warrap State) and Bor (Jonglei State) restricted domino and card games.
29 May 2026 – UN sanctions renewed. Resolution 2821 extended the arms embargo and targeted measures to 31 May 2027.
June 2026 – FATF. South Sudan remained on the FATF list of jurisdictions under increased monitoring.

No gambling bill, regulator or online licensing regulations had been announced as of the date of review.

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The listings below are generated automatically from our casino database. They do not show that an operator is licensed in South Sudan: there is no licensing category for online casinos, no gambling regulator and no public register of authorised operators, and taxes on lottery and gaming are administered by the South Sudan Revenue Authority. Keeping an unlicensed public gaming house is an offence under section 340 of the Penal Code Act 2008. The listings must not be read as an indication that any operator is authorised locally or that playing is lawful. International sanctions are targeted at designated persons and arms transfers, but they and South Sudan’s FATF status can affect banking and payment channels.

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South Sudan Online Casino Guide

Key points

Online casinos for South Sudan

Historical development

Legal framework

Penal Code Act 2008

Financial Act 2024/2025

Other measures

Regulator and licensing model

Online gambling

Position of players

Taxation

Consumer protection and responsible gambling

International sanctions

Recent and upcoming developments

Casino listings for players in South Sudan

Related country guides

Sources and further reading

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