Detailed overview
Senegal does not currently have a comprehensive AI Act. Its AI framework is under development through national AI strategy work, digital-sovereignty policy and public consultation.
The Ministry of Communication, Telecommunications and Digital Affairs organised a consultation workshop on the National AI Strategy on 11 May 2026. This indicates that Senegal is building an official AI governance framework, but the strategy should not be treated as a binding AI statute until formally adopted and implemented through legal instruments.
Senegal's broader New Deal Technologique includes AI within the country's digital-sovereignty and technology-development agenda. Official presidential materials describe the "AI & Digital Factory" programme as intended to make Senegal a centre of expertise capable of producing, using and exporting technologies and solutions in artificial intelligence, cloud computing, cybersecurity, virtual reality, gaming and robotics.
Current AI compliance in Senegal is therefore based mainly on existing legal regimes. Depending on the use case, AI may trigger data-protection, cybersecurity, telecoms, consumer-protection, financial-services, healthcare, public-sector, employment, intellectual-property or criminal-law rules.
Senegal does not currently have one AI-specific penalty table. Penalties depend on the underlying law breached and on any future AI strategy or implementing legislation.
Practical requirements & details
Sourced from the consultation workshop on the National AI Strategy (11 May 2026) organised by the Ministry of Communication, Telecommunications and Digital Affairs and the AI & Digital Factory programme under the New Deal Technologique.
Strategy work
- Consultation workshop on the National AI Strategy on 11 May 2026.
- Senegal is building an official AI governance framework — not yet a binding statute.
AI & Digital Factory
- Part of the New Deal Technologique.
- Aims to make Senegal a centre of expertise capable of producing, using and exporting technologies and solutions in AI, cloud computing, cybersecurity, VR, gaming and robotics.
Existing-law overlays
- AI may trigger data-protection, cybersecurity, telecoms, consumer protection, financial services, healthcare, public-sector, employment, IP or criminal law.
Penalties
- No AI-specific penalty table.
- Penalties depend on the underlying law breached and on future AI strategy or implementing legislation.