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What you need to know about DR Congo Gambling Industry
The Democratic Republic of the Congo, also known as Congo-Kinshasa, is a country located in Central Africa, and it was formerly called Zaire.
It is by area, the largest country in sub-Saharan Africa, the second-largest in all of Africa (after Algeria), and the 11th largest in the world with a population of over 84 million inhabitants, the Democratic Republic of the Congo is the most populous officially Francophone and the French language country in the world in which the average population is young and rejuvenating over 68% of people aged less than 25 years, a majority of whom live in rural area.
It is fascinating to know that gambling is legal in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Games of Chance first regulated in DR Congo in 2005, and the law has amended a few times, but ba
sics remain the same. Gambling permitted in the country, and gambling establishments need to be registered and pay the associate taxes. The gambling law regulates games of chance, various lottery types, and casinos, slot machines explicitly. However, there is no word on games of skill, and whether poker is considered a form of gambling. Perhaps, online gambling is not expressly regulated or