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African iGaming Alliance Announces Inaugural Africa Safer Gambling Week
The African iGaming Alliance (AiA), working alongside gambling regulators, industry associations and other stakeholders across the continent, will host the inaugural Africa Safer Gambling Week from 7–11 September 2026, a coordinated initiative aimed at promoting safer gambling, strengthening player protection and increasing public awareness across African gambling markets.
Africa Safer Gambling Week will bring together regulators and industry stakeholders around a common objective: ensuring that the continued growth of Africa’s gambling sector is accompanied by effective consumer protection, responsible gambling practices and greater public awareness.
Under the campaign banner #PlaySafeAfrica, the week will feature a coordinated programme of regulatory and industry engagement, public education and digital awareness activities across participating African jurisdictions. Activities during the week will include a formal launch and media engagement, a fi ve-day public awareness campaign, community outreach initiatives and a continental webinar bringing together regulators and industry stakeholders. Each day will focus on a specifi c aspect of safer gambling, including responsible gambling,
understanding and setting personal limits, the use of responsible gambling tools, preventing underage gambling, and raising awareness of the risks posed by illegal and unlicensed gambling operators.
Peter Emolemo Kesitilwe, CEO of the African iGaming Alliance, said: “As Africa’s gambling industry continues to grow, player protection must grow with it. Africa Safer Gambling Week brings regulators and industry together around a shared commitment to safer gambling and stronger consumer protection. We fully support consumers having the tools and information they need to gamble responsibly ,this week, like every week, is about ensuring our customers’ safety.” Olabimpe Akingba, Board Member of African iGaming Alliance and Head of Responsible Gaming pawaTech, mentions that:
“At the African iGaming Alliance (AiA), we have been committed to moving beyond conversations about collaboration across African jurisdictions
towards meaningful action. And what better place to demonstrate that commitment than through player protection? The Africa Safer Gambling Week is our collaboration in action” Africa Safer Gambling Week will provide participating jurisdictions with coordinated campaign materials while allowing regulators to tailor public messaging and activities to their respective markets and local communities. The initiative will also emphasise the importance of directing consumers towards licensed and regulated gambling operators. Illegal and unlicensed gambling can undermine responsible gambling safeguards, consumer protection measures and regulatory oversight, leaving players with signifi cantly fewer protections when problems arise.
The AiA believes that collaboration between regulators, licensed operators, trade associations and responsible gambling organisations will be critical as African gambling markets continue to develop.
Africa Safer Gambling Week is intended to become an annual platform through which stakeholders can strengthen cooperation, share good practice and keep safer gambling and player protection at the centre of the continent’s gambling policy agenda.
Aviator Crash Game Secure Logo and IP Protection in Kenya
SPRIBE has extended the intellectual property protection covering Aviator into Kenya, adding registered rights over the game’s logo in a market where the title has been available to players for fi ve years. SPRIBE OÜ has secured another
protection in Kenya for its Intellectual Property Rights. The iconic logo of SPRIBE’s world- famous crash game, Aviator, is offi cially registered under the WIPO Madrid System and the protection in Kenya is effective retroactively from October 11, 2024. This registration reinforces and is an add on to SPRIBE’s intellectual property rights, and solidifi es the
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a rights holder to extend trademark protection into member territories through a single international application rather than fi ling separately in each one.
Kenya is among the most established markets for Aviator, which arrived there in 2021 and has since become one of the country’s most widely played online casino games.
brand presence of Aviator, which launched in the Kenyan market in 2021.
The Madrid System, administered by the World Intellectual Property Organization, allows
Giorgi Tsutskiridze, CCO at SPRIBE, said: “Kenyan players were among the earliest to take Aviator to their hearts, and the game has been part of that market for fi ve years now. “Registering the logo gives us fi rmer ground to stand on whenever imitations turn up, and it gives the licensed operators we work with the confi dence that what they are putting in front of their players is the real deal.”
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