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Ethiopia Prepares Sports Betting Relaunch After 27.5B Birr Audit Uncovers Unpaid Obligations
BirrMetrics · 6 days ago · Read the Full Story on BirrMetrics
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Ethiopia is preparing to rebuild its sports betting and digital lottery industry under a new technology-driven regulatory system following an audit that revealed 27.5 billion birr in unpaid government obligations.
- Licensed sports betting operators circulated approximately 199 billion birr between July 2022 and December 2025.
- Operators remitted only 3.6 billion birr out of approximately 30 billion birr in commissions due during the period, leaving about 12 percent paid and 88 percent unpaid.
- The 27.5 billion birr in total outstanding obligations includes unpaid commissions, penalties, license renewal charges, and registration fees.
- Dash Betting accounts for 8.64 billion birr of the outstanding obligations, while another 10 companies collectively owe approximately 19 billion birr.
- Monthly betting turnover surged from 4.7 billion birr for the entirety of 2022 to approximately 20 billion birr by September 2025.
- The Ethiopian Lottery Service is developing a unified digital system to monitor operators' financial and legal obligations in real-time.
- Beza Girma, CEO of the Ethiopian Lottery Service, confirmed that preparations are underway to relaunch sports betting and digital lottery services in a new, tightly supervised form.
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