# Senegal

- **Record type**: Jurisdiction profile
- **Short name**: Senegal
- **ISO code**: SN
- **Type**: country
- **Region**: Africa / Western Africa

## In brief

Senegal has 1 recorded AI policy instrument, none of them binding. National AI strategy (2025) as policy; data-protection law applies; no AI-specific law. Regulators include Ministère de la Communication, des Télécommunications et du Numérique, Commission de protection des Données Personnelles (CDP).

## Overview

Senegal adopted a National Artificial Intelligence Strategy in 2025 through the Ministry of Communication, Telecommunications and Digital Affairs within the "New Technological Deal" digital strategy, with priorities on public services, agriculture, health, talent and ethics; Law 2008-12 on personal data and the CDP apply.

## Regulatory status

National AI strategy (2025) as policy; data-protection law applies; no AI-specific law.

## What is binding and what is guidance

Binding: none recorded. Strategy or guidance: National AI Strategy (2025).

## Regulators

- Ministère de la Communication, des Télécommunications et du Numérique — AI strategy lead — https://numerique.gouv.sn/
- Commission de protection des Données Personnelles (CDP) — Data-protection authority — https://www.cdp.sn/

## How to use this profile

- Open the official source on each instrument before relying on any date or obligation.
- Treat strategies and guidance as signals of coming regulation, not as binding requirements.
- Check data-protection, consumer, employment and sector law that applies to AI systems regardless of AI-specific instruments.
- Use the African Union Continental AI Strategy (2024) as the regional reference where a national instrument is missing.

## Official sources

- Ministère de la Communication, des Télécommunications et du Numérique — Government of Senegal — https://numerique.gouv.sn/

## Instruments recorded for this jurisdiction (1)

- **Stratégie nationale de l'intelligence artificielle du Sénégal** — National strategy, Adopted, non-binding
  - Record: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/senegal-national-ai-strategy-2025
  - Context file: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/senegal-national-ai-strategy-2025.md

## Provenance

- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/jurisdictions/senegal
- **Official source**: https://numerique.gouv.sn/
- **Source document**: Ministère de la Communication, des Télécommunications et du Numérique
- **Published by**: Government of Senegal
- **Review status**: verified
- **Confidence**: low
- **Facts last confirmed**: 2026-09-26
- **Confirmed by**: Bhaskar Bhatt (see https://aipolicytracker.org/reviewers)
- **Retrieved**: 2026-10-27
- **Licence**: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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