Uganda president orders ban on sports betting

[Nik0]

In the many years that I've been promoting online gambling sites, I don't recall ever seeing one visitor from Uganda.

Casino games haven't reached Uganda yet. It is all about football betting. I have couple of thousands visitors from there per month.

[gil.langelaan]

OK, we are normally on the side of business and making our living on people losing their money. But there must be some limits and understanding at the end. I can say in the recent years football betting has taken pandemic sizes in some countries as Kenya, Uganda and Nigeria. Uganda is one of the poorest countries in Africa and when you see people throwing their last cents at the bookie shops instead buying some food this is sad. It is a problem with gambling quite different and much worse than what we know it here. I don't want to put labels but 90% of these people have no control or clue what they are doing. Half of them will lose even if betting what will be the date tomorrow...

Would be considered racist by many, but lots of folks there think gambling is their last chance of getting any kind of money above the minimum wage and it's sad. A big problem for the poorer countries.