Is online gambling legal in Guinea-Bissau?

Legal overview

Very little official information on gambling law in Guinea-Bissau is publicly available. We could not find a gambling statute, a regulator website, a register of licensed operators or a government notice that deals with online gambling. Industry research published in November 2025 reports that the country has no specific law governing either land-based or online gambling, that the Ministry of Tourism is the only authority involved in land-based gambling, and that there is no independent regulator.

The land-based sector is small. It consists mainly of state-run and private lotteries and informal sports betting shops, and licensing is described as neither transparent nor comprehensive. In 2019 the government reportedly banned "colos colos" gaming machines because of underage play. No online casino or online betting licence is known to have been issued, and there is no formal framework for operator taxation, anti-money laundering checks or responsible gambling.

For players, this means online casino play happens in an unregulated grey market. Foreign-licensed sites are reachable, but no Bissau-Guinean authority licenses or supervises them, and we found no reports of website or payment blocking or of action against players. Players have no local regulator, complaint route or national self-exclusion scheme, so any protection comes only from the operator's foreign licence and its own tools. No minimum gambling age or tax treatment of winnings is stated in any source we could check, and no reform has been announced.

Verification status: this overview is based on secondary sources and has not yet been checked against the official law text or the regulator. Confirm the details with the national authority before relying on them.