title: Algeria — Overview: What kind of market is this? | advennt.io canonical: https://advennt.io/jurisdictions/algeria/overview/ [Jurisdictions](https://advennt.io/jurisdictions/) [Algeria](https://advennt.io/jurisdictions/algeria/) Overview Algeria · Question 01 of 11 # Overview: What kind of market is this? Unfavourable · Confirmed · AI-generated · [Back to full Algeria report →](https://advennt.io/jurisdictions/algeria/) Key section parameters | Jurisdiction | Algeria (DZ) | |---|---| | Regulator | Recorded in register | | Favourability | Unfavourable | | Confidence | Confirmed | | Review status | AI-generated | | Last collected | 18 Oct 2026 | Summary answer Algeria maintains a closed state-monopoly gambling market with no private licensing pathway; the PSA lottery and sports pool and the PMU horse-racing tote remain the only lawful operators. The 2025 legislative wave, anchored in Law No. 25-10 of 24 July 2025, tightens enforcement of the offshore and … ### Key headwinds & conditions - Layered statutory prohibition (Penal, Civil, Family Codes + Law 18-05) - FATF grey list October 2024 – 19 June 2026 (MENAFATF member); Algeria removed from the list at the June 2026 plenary — no longer an active EDD headwind - Crypto and VPN use criminalised (Law 25-10, July 2025) - ARPCE active website blocking; no licensing pathway ## Full section analysis Algeria maintains a closed state-monopoly gambling market with no private licensing pathway; the PSA lottery and sports pool and the PMU horse-racing tote remain the only lawful operators. The 2025 legislative wave, anchored in Law No. 25-10 of 24 July 2025, tightens enforcement of the offshore and online perimeter by criminalising the use of a VPN to bypass state blocking orders and access offshore gambling or crypto platforms. This is a civil-law jurisdiction where the statutory licensing stack (enabling law plus implementing measures) governs the field, and the current cycle's activity is entirely enforcement-oriented rather than liberalising. No new entrant, product vertical, or licensing category has emerged; the market's structural closure is unchanged, but the state's capacity to police circumvention of that closure has been extended into individual criminal liability.