Mohamed Farah — register editor. Decides what belongs on a file and what stays off it. Runs the money side himself: account opened, funds in, a bet placed, documents filed, withdrawal requested — with a stopwatch on every step.
The desk and our principles
About Top Casino Somalia
Who we are. Top Casino Somalia keeps a public register of betting sites reachable from Somalia. Three people compile it, funding real accounts and requesting real withdrawals rather than reading operator marketing, and each file carries a score out of 100 across six weighted areas. We take no bets ourselves and hold no stake in any site listed here.
The desk
Who keeps the register
The work splits three ways: one person decides what a file says, one chases the paperwork behind a licence, and one tracks what other players have already reported. No column of the score is left without an owner.
Hodan Ali — licence and compliance researcher. Traces which company actually holds an operating licence, matches names against regulator registers, and flags the gap when a site footer and the register disagree.
Yasin Omar — reader complaints editor. Reads what players report elsewhere, works out which domain a grievance actually belongs to, and keeps the age rules and harm-reduction pages current.
How we audit: real money, the full cycle
Every operator on the register goes through the same hands-on test. We register a genuine account, make a real deposit, place a real bet, complete identity verification and then withdraw — and we record what happens at each step. Because we use our own money, the payout time we publish is the time we actually waited, not a figure copied from the operator. The five scoring areas and their weights are set out in full on our method page.
Editorial independence
No operator has ever been offered a position, and none would get one. Placement follows the score, the score follows what we recorded, and a brand cannot pay to climb, soften a line, or have an inconvenient finding dropped — we have no arrangement that lets a brand influence its score, and we do not send drafts to operators for approval before publishing. When an operator does something well, we say so; when a site carries a licence flag or a non-payment record, that goes on the file too, regardless of any commercial relationship.
Honest monetisation disclosure
We are open about how the site is funded. Some links to operators are affiliate links, which means Top Casino Somalia may earn a commission if you open an account after following one. That commission never changes the register: placement and scores follow the method, and a paying operator is treated exactly like one that pays us nothing. If a site we could earn from fails the audit, it stays low on the list or carries its flag — the money follows the ranking, never the other way around. The full terms are on our terms of use page.
Corrections and contact
We would rather fix a mistake than defend one. If you can show that a fact on the register is wrong or out of date, tell us and we will check it and update the file. An operator that believes its entry is inaccurate can write to the same address. How to reach the desk, and what the register can and cannot help with, is on the contact page.
Read how the scores are built on our method page, or see the method applied in the lilbet file.
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