Togo: gambling regulation and licensing

Togo's gambling landscape is built around the Loterie Nationale Togolaise, LONATO, the state lottery. It publishes its historical background and legal status, its vision, mission and values, its game types and how to play them, the draw programme, jackpots and results, and it runs a network of agencies across the country. Its published draw games include MATINAL, MILLION and SUPER, with results carried on the site as they are drawn. Alongside the commercial material it publishes a responsible gambling section under the line jouons responsable, and an œuvres sociales section covering the social projects the lottery funds, which is the standard justification for a state lottery monopoly across the region. As in neighbouring francophone states, LONATO is an operator rather than a regulator, so the state's presence in gambling is commercial before it is supervisory. This profile records LONATO and leaves the substantive detail as honest gaps. The identity of any separate supervisory authority, vertical status beyond the lottery it runs, licence types, fees, tax treatment, advertising rules and compliance obligations have not yet been verified against primary sources. Readers should verify the statutory position directly rather than relying on secondary accounts of the West African lottery model, which vary considerably country by country.

Regulator

Loterie Nationale Togolaise (LONATO)

Regulator type

Lottery monopoly

Headline tax

Not yet verified

Licence required

Not yet verified

Minimum age

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Tax base

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Advertising permitted

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1. Loterie Nationale Togolaise

   Loterie Nationale Togolaise

   Tier 1Accessed 27 Aug 2026