Comoros Gambling Licence 2026: Anjouan, Mwali and What the Union's Law and the Two Island Registers Show

Three islands, two licensing authorities

The Union of the Comoros is three islands in the Mozambique Channel: Ngazidja (Grande Comore, with the capital Moroni), Ndzuwani (Anjouan) and Mwali (Mohéli). Two of them have a body that issues online gambling licences.

• Anjouan: the Anjouan Offshore Financial Authority (AOFA), working through the platform at anjouangaming.com and the administrator Anjouan Licensing Services. The licence, its fee of EUR 17,828 a year and its conditions are covered on our Anjouan profile.
• Mwali: the Mwali International Services Authority (MISA), which lists banks, insurers, brokers, crypto firms and gambling companies on one register.

The Union’s own institutions sit on Ngazidja. We found no Union gambling statute, no Union gaming regulator and no Union register, so a “Comoros licence” in practice means a licence from one of the two islands.

The Union’s texts

Three Union texts touch on licensing and gambling.

The Constitution of 2018. Art. 102 lists the islands’ exclusive competences: economic planning and social development, development of the island territory, acquisition of assets for the island’s needs, tourism, the environment and heritage, traditional fishing, agriculture and animal husbandry, road maintenance, and fairs and markets. Art. 103 adds shared matters such as local collectivities, schools and basic health. Neither article mentions gambling.

Banking Law No. 13-003/AU of 12 June 2013. Art. 18 reserves banking and financial activity to institutions approved by the Central Bank of the Comoros. The law does not deal with gaming. In a communiqué of 15 June 2022 on offshore banking activity, the central bank published its list of thirteen authorised institutions and named the island bodies among those it does not authorise to grant banking approvals. The communiqué concerns banking and does not mention gaming licences.

Penal Code Act 95-012/AF. Art. 386, in the version published in 1981, 1982 and 1995, prohibits the practice of games of chance, and art. 387 covers gaming houses run without a decree. Both apply to gambling within the Comoros. A new Penal Code, Law No. 20-038/AU, was adopted in 2021; we could not obtain its text, so whether these articles survive in the same form is unverified.

None of these texts creates a Union gambling licence, and none mentions internet gaming.

The Anjouan register on 8 October 2026

Anjouan Gaming publishes its register as a single page with the data embedded in it. We read the page on 8 October 2026 and counted it with a script.

Measure	8 October 2026
Licence rows	1,543
B2C	1,311
B2B	177
B2B & B2C	30
”B2C, B2B & whitelabeling”	25
Rows showing status “valid”	1,543
Rows whose listed expiry date had passed	341
Rows named by a Costa Rican registry number (3-102-…)	269
Domains listed	4,144
Earliest issue date	12 January 2023
Latest issue date	30 September 2026

Issuance by year: 45 licences in 2023, 414 in 2024, 592 in 2025 and 492 in the first nine months of 2026. Terms vary: 876 rows run one year from issue, 473 two years, 186 three years and six about four years.

On 14 July 2026 Anjouan Gaming said it had issued more than 1,650 licences, with nearly 1,500 active. The difference between issued and listed reflects licences that have left the register since issuance began. The page shows every row as “valid”; for rows whose expiry date has passed, a renewal may not yet be reflected, so checking the expiry date alongside the status gives the fuller picture.

The 269 numbered holders are Costa Rican companies identified by their legal ID number, which is how Costa Rica’s National Registry has named newly formed S.A. and S.R.L. companies since Law No. 10.729 of May 2025. The same pattern appears on the Tobique register.

For how to check a single licence, see the Anjouan register guide. The register is recounted on the first of every month on our licence register tracker, which shows how the totals move.

The Mwali list on 8 October 2026

Two websites use the MISA name. The site at mwaliregistrar.org presents itself as the island’s official portal and states that it is MISA’s only official website. Its “List of Entities” page, read on 8 October 2026, is a set of six tables.

Category	Entities	Issue dates	Status
Banking companies	49	2011–2024	all “Active”
Insurance companies	4	2014–2020	all “Active”
Gambling companies	14	2011–2025	all “Active”
Crypto companies	13	2020–2025	all “Active”
Brokerage companies	10	1999–2022	all “Active”
Trust companies	2	2022–2024	all “Active”

The fourteen gambling entities carry licence numbers prefixed G: one each in 2011, 2012 and 2019, four in 2020, one in 2023, five in 2024 and one in 2025. The site’s “Laws” page lists a Banking Act 2013, an Anti-Terrorism Act 2007, an AML Law 2014 and IBC regulations of 2014. Advisers cite a “Mwali Services Law, 1998, amended in 2001” as the basis for gaming licences and quote packages around USD 22,000 including a company; we found no fee schedule published by the authority itself, so no Mwali fee appears on this page as a fact.

Other offers under the Comoros name

Comoros Services Ltd, at comorosservices.com, offers an “Online Gaming” licence for Comoros companies under a “Comoros Finance Commission”, citing “Law Number 17-008/AU” of 2017. We searched the Ministry of Justice’s online law collection and the central bank’s legislation pages for that law and did not find it, so we cannot describe its terms.

In practice

For an operator. The licence is issued by the island authority you apply to, Anjouan’s or Mwali’s, and the register entry is published by that authority. Anjouan’s register is public and its conditions are published; Mwali publishes its list but not a fee schedule. Which countries you may serve depends on each country’s law and on the licence conditions, so check both before launch. For licence validity, market access and acceptance by banks and payment providers, see our Anjouan legitimacy analysis.

For a payment provider or bank. Match the licence number to the issuing island’s register, and read the expiry date as well as the status.

For a player. A licence entry shows which authority licensed the operator. Whether a site may accept players where you live depends on local law.

What we could not read

The 2021 Penal Code (Law 20-038/AU), Anjouan’s Computer Gaming Licensing Act of 2005 (we found no gazette copy), the Mwali Services Law of 1998 and Law 17-008/AU. The Anjouan register was counted from the JSON embedded in the page and the Mwali list from its HTML tables. We did not contact either island authority.