Burkina Faso: gambling regulation and licensing
- iLotteryMonopoly
- Horse race bettingMonopoly
- Regulator
- Loterie Nationale Burkinabè
- Headline tax
- Not yet verified
- Licence required
- Not yet verified
- Last verified
- 30 Aug 2026
Summary
Gambling in Burkina Faso is organised around the Loterie Nationale Burkinabè, LONAB, the state lottery, whose motto states the model plainly: les lots aux gagnants, les bénéfices au Faso, prizes to the winners and profits to the country. LONAB is an operator rather than a licensing authority, and the gambling the state sanctions is the gambling LONAB itself runs. Its published product range is wider than the word lottery suggests: Faso pari for sports betting, PMU'B for pari-mutuel horse race betting, Faso cash, Tombola, Minute Plus, Télé fortune, community games and instant products. It publishes a presentation of its missions and organisation, a responsible gambling section, a certification page and a strategic plan covering 2016 to 2025, and operates through regional directorates for the East, West and Centre. This is the francophone West African model, in which the national lottery is simultaneously the market and the state's instrument in it. This profile records LONAB and leaves the substantive detail as honest gaps. The identity of any separate supervisory authority, licence types, fees, tax treatment, advertising rules and compliance obligations have not yet been verified against primary sources. The position on privately operated online gambling is not asserted, and the absence of a published licence register is a finding about how the market is governed rather than a gap in the record.
Key facts
- Regulator
- Loterie Nationale Burkinabè (LONAB)
- Regulator type
- Lottery monopoly
- Headline tax
- Not yet verified
- Licence required
- Not yet verified
- Minimum age
- Not yet verified
- Tax base
- Not yet verified
Advertising
- Advertising permitted
- Not yet verified
Restrictions
- Gambling is organised around the Loterie Nationale Burkinabe (LONAB), the state lottery, which is an operator rather than a licensing authority.
- LONAB runs sports betting as Faso pari and pari-mutuel horse race betting as PMU B alongside its lottery products, so the state operator covers several verticals itself.
- There is no licensing regime for private operators, so there is no advertising code governing a commercial market.
- No verified framework governs the advertising of offshore online operators to Burkinabe consumers.
Sources
- LONAB - Loterie Nationale Burkinabè
Loterie Nationale Burkinabè
Tier 1Accessed 27 Aug 2026