{"id":34202,"date":"2026-09-30T03:15:04","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T06:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/africa\/?p=34202"},"modified":"2026-09-30T10:01:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T13:01:18","slug":"niger-cross-border-tce-lottery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/africa\/niger-cross-border-tce-lottery","title":{"rendered":"Niger announces dates for 31st cross-border TCE lottery"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The regional lottery will bring together five national lotteries in Niamey, with prizes reaching FCFA20m (US$34,700).<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Niger.- The 31st Tranche Commune Entente<\/strong> (TCE) lottery dates have been announced, with the cross-border lottery<\/strong> set to take place in Niamey, Niger, from November 22 to 29, 2026. The TCE involves the national lotteries of Benin, Burkina Faso, C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire, Niger and Togo, with Niger hosting this year\u2019s edition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The announcement was made in a press communiqu\u00e9 from Burkina Faso National Lottery (LONAB). The event will feature prizes reaching FCFA20m (US$34,700), while selected participants can also win an all-expenses-paid trip to Niamey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2026 edition follows Togo\u2019s hosting of the 2025 TCE<\/a>, which brought the five national lotteries together for the cross-border draw in Lom\u00e9. The 2025 edition culminated with C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire\u2019s Koffi N\u2019guessan winning the FCFA20m (US$30,000) jackpot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2026 TCE has two prize tracks<\/strong>, with the National Harmonised Programme covering the wider pool of winners and the Regional Extraordinary Programme reserved for the top qualifiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The National Harmonised Programme<\/strong> has prizes of FCFA100,000 (US$174) to FCFA500,000 (US$868). The Regional Extraordinary Programme has prizes ranging from FCFA2m (US$3,500) to FCFA20m (US$34,700).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Burkina Faso, the qualifying route runs through four Faso Loto draws on October 7, 14, 21 and 28, 2026. The minimum stake is FCFA500 (US$0.87), with 10 winners selected from each draw. The first winner from each draw will qualify for the Regional Extraordinary Programme, while the other nine winners will enter the National Harmonised Programme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Players have been advised to keep their physical or digital tickets and, when placing physical bets, register their telephone numbers.<\/p>\n\n\n

\n\t\t\tSee also:<\/span><\/p>\n
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\n\t\t\t\t\tSee also:<\/span> Niger\u2019s National Lottery launches youth and women project call ahead of 31st cross-border TCE<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The regional lottery will bring together five national lotteries in Niamey, with prizes reaching FCFA20m (US$34,700).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2809,"featured_media":34216,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"The 31st Tranche Commune Entente (TCE) cross-border lottery, involving national lotteries from Benin, Burkina Faso, C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire, Niger, and Togo, is scheduled for November 2026 in Niamey, Niger. This regional initiative features two prize tracks, including a top prize of FCFA20m, and highlights ongoing collaboration in the West African lottery sector. The event underscores the strategic importance of multi-jurisdictional gaming operations for market expansion and player engagement.","focusai_entities":"Tranche Commune Entente (TCE), Burkina Faso National Lottery (LONAB), National Lottery of Benin, National Lottery of C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire, National Lottery of Niger, National Lottery of Togo","focusai_location":"Niamey, Niger, Lom\u00e9, Benin, Burkina Faso, C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire, Togo","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.9), compliance_legal (0.8), operator_casino (0.8), payments_fraud_aml (0.7), investor_analyst (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"TCE Regulatory Impact?","query":"What specific regulatory and governance frameworks are being harmonized or developed to facilitate the seamless operation and prize distribution of the Tranche Commune Entente across multiple West African jurisdictions?"},{"label":"Regional GGR Projections?","query":"How do the participating national lotteries project the incremental Gross Gaming Revenue (GGR) and Net Gaming Revenue (NGR) contributions from the Tranche Commune Entente, and what are the long-term growth strategies for this regional gaming vertical?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[60016,60012],"tags":[74],"class_list":["post-34202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-news","category-west-africa","tag-lottery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2809"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34202"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34274,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34202\/revisions\/34274"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}