The first 15 betting shops will be opened on October 12th

Games Movil and Lotto Rwanda to develop gaming activities in Rwanda

2007-09-11
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This agreement aims to offer betting enjoyment of all major sports worldwide, furthermore to build a national distribution network for the National Lottery and to implement the National Lottery in Rwanda, to assist and design new scratch card concept that include a nation wide Jackpot, installation of horse and dog racing in all betting shops, and mobile gaming platform to be launched during 2008.

All new gaming products and services to be linked to a web based system in real time to enable the government to have complete transparency, audit and compliance access and the technology to ensure that the games and project are in the public interest.

Games Movil will commence its rollout of the first 15 betting shops that will be operated directly by Lotto Rwanda with Grand Opening on October 12th, 2007, and during 2008 open 100 betting shops creating 500 new jobs in Rwanda. The total new jobs that would be created over the next 10 years are estimated to 30,000.

Johannes Lind, Vice President and Co-Founder of Games Movil stated, "This long term agreement to supply, implement and manage of gaming activities in the Rwandan market is an integral step towards fulfilling our strategy of a significant presence throughout East, Central and West Africa".

Philippe Brizoua, Director General of Lotto Rwanda stated: "We are pleased and look forward to a long and successful relationship with Games Movil that will contribute to the benefit of both the people and the government, since it will create revenue for new social projects here in Rwanda."

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