Licensing and regulation: Can we get a licence?

LONASE retains its statutory monopoly over lottery and sports-betting licensing, with land-based casinos separately authorised by the Ministry of Interior; no dedicated business-to-business or online-gambling licensing regime exists. This cycle's notable development is LONASE's pursuit of LPbet as a standardisation vehicle for Senegal's iGaming sector, which the available evidence characterises as a state-monopoly-led approach to formalising online gambling rather than the creation of an independent licensing track for private operators. This finding rests on uncertain confidence: it derives from a single trade-press source, with no LONASE or Ministry of Economy and Finance primary instrument retrieved this cycle to substantiate it. The structural absence of a consolidated gambling act remains the durable backdrop against which any LPbet development should be read, since it means gambling regulation in Senegal continues to operate as a patchwork of monopoly-specific and sector-general rules rather than a unified statutory framework.