{"id":186146,"date":"2024-12-08T12:24:17","date_gmt":"2024-12-08T10:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-problem-gambling-in-kenya-what-can-we-learn-from-the-uk\/"},"modified":"2024-12-08T12:24:17","modified_gmt":"2024-12-08T10:24:17","slug":"kenya-problem-gambling-in-kenya-what-can-we-learn-from-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-problem-gambling-in-kenya-what-can-we-learn-from-the-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Problem Gambling in Kenya &#8211; What Can We Learn From the UK?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"103\">The popularity of gambling is growing on the continent, and Kenya is among the main target markets for giant international operators. Reports indicate that approximately 83% of the country&#8217;s population engaged in casino or betting activities at least once. The sector is regulated in the state, but the local legislation is flexible and allows operations of both in-country and overseas platforms. Users&#8217; interest in gambling activities resulted in increased <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q%3Dhttps:\/\/www.apa.org\/monitor\/2023\/07\/how-gambling-affects-the-brain%26amp;sa%3DD%26amp;source%3Deditors%26amp;ust%3D1733490909283635%26amp;usg%3DAOvVaw04p-Ly9-Jht1JoAn-RUnjD&amp;sa=D&amp;source=docs&amp;ust=1733490909294277&amp;usg=AOvVaw2QWFUXqDwtEmKP8eTEDhBa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rates of compulsive players<\/a>, and the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202412060525.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The popularity of gambling is growing on the continent, and Kenya is among the main target markets for giant international operators. Reports indicate that approximately 83% of the country&#8217;s population engaged in casino or betting activities at least once. The sector is regulated in the state, but the local legislation is flexible and allows operations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":186147,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,14085,4688,430,8334,257,9981,254],"class_list":["post-186146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-gambling","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-learn","tag-news","tag-problem","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}