The newly published regulations require firms to establish automated systems that reject deposits made by self-excluded punters throughout the exclusion period.
By
John Mutua
Business Reporter
Nation Media Group
Betting firms that entice addicted punters who have sought to be barred from gambling risk having their licences revoked under new regulations aimed at curbing the country's gambling craze.
New proposals allow families to request gaming regulator to bar their kin from gambling.
Blocking the foreign-based online firms forces punters to use local, licensed operators that are obligated to remit levies.
Kenya is currently home to the highest number of youthful gamblers in Africa, ahead of bigger economies like Nigeria and South…
Kenya families will be able to ask the country's gambling regulator to bar relatives from betting under sweeping new rules.
The Gaming Board of Tanzania (GBT) has introduced measures to temporarily restrict compulsive gamblers from betting as part of…
The petition argues that the new regulations will cripple the industry and were allegedly passed without public participation.
Government to restrict betting ads and require money loss warnings
