Online Casinos in Senegal

What This Page Can and Cannot Say

This page states no legal position on online casino play in Senegal, because not one Senegalese official source mentions it. That is the finding. Senegal does have a live state-contracted online sector, and this page describes it — but everything in it, as described by the state operator and by the state news agency, is sports betting and lottery.

Senegal's gambling statutes are published as PDFs, so no provision of Senegalese gambling law is quoted below, and there is no regulator's site to quote either, because Senegal has no gambling regulator.

No Regulator, and a State Monopoly Instead

Senegal has no gambling regulatory authority on any Senegalese government site. Neither the finance ministry nor any other publishes an "autorité" or a "comité de régulation des jeux". This page therefore names no regulator, which is a fact about the market rather than a gap in the research.

What sits at the centre of the sector instead is the Loterie Nationale Sénégalaise. On its own site LONASE states: "Créée en 1966, la LONASE est l'opérateur public de loteries et de jeux de hasard au Sénégal. Investie d'une mission d'intérêt général, elle exploite en monopole les jeux de hasard, loteries et jeux assimilés sur le territoire national, au service du financement du développement économique et social." Created in 1966, it is the public operator of lotteries and games of chance in Senegal, and it exploits games of chance, lotteries and similar games as a monopoly across the national territory (translation).

The Governing Statute

Senegal's gambling-establishments statute is identified on a gouv.sn page as "Loi n° 1975/59 du 2 juin 1975 modifiant et complétant la loi n° 66-58 du 30 juin 1966 portant organisation et réglementation des établissements de jeux de hasard." — the 1975 law amending and supplementing loi n° 66-58 of 30 June 1966 on the organisation and regulation of gambling establishments (translation). Neither text is quoted here, so nothing further about their content is asserted.

How Online Play Actually Works

LONASE's own FAQ describes its range: the PMU horse-race pool, Senloto Jackpot, Loto 5/90 Yakaar, Parifoot sports betting and online betting. On the online channel it states "Les paris en ligne se font via la plateforme LONASE.BET, accessible depuis le bouton « Jouer en ligne » du site." Online betting goes through the LONASE.BET platform, reached from the site's "Jouer en ligne" button (translation). There is no casino product anywhere in that description.

The arrangement with commercial operators is contractual rather than regulatory, and the state news agency records it. The Agence de Presse Sénégalaise reported: "Dakar, 4 fev (APS) – La loterie nationale sénégalaise (Lonase) a signé, mercredi à Dakar, avec les entreprises Jaap Sénégal, 22 Bet et Betting Partner, trois conventions de partenariat techniques pour le lancement de sites de jeux en ligne, a constaté l'APS." LONASE signed technical partnership conventions with three companies for the launch of online gaming sites (translation). The same agency reported the money side: "Le 1er janvier 2026, la redevance dont doivent s'acquitter les sociétés de jeux et paris en ligne auprès de la Loterie nationale sénégalaise (LONASE) a été portée à 30% et une nouvelle taxe fiscale de 20% sur les revenus des opérateurs instaurée." — on 1 January 2026 the royalty owed to LONASE by online gaming and betting companies was raised to 30 per cent, and a new 20 per cent tax on operator revenue was introduced (translation).

The distinction this page keeps is between a licence and a commercial convention. A company operating a site under a technical partnership with the state operator, and paying it a royalty, is not thereby licensed by a Senegalese regulator — because there is no Senegalese regulator. Nothing here should be read as establishing that any particular brand holds a Senegalese online casino licence.

Minimum Age

LONASE states the rule twice on its own site: "Le jeu est strictement interdit aux personnes de moins de 18 ans." on its FAQ, and "Le jeu est interdit aux moins de 18 ans." on its responsible gambling page. Gambling is strictly forbidden to people under 18 (translation). That is the state operator's published rule rather than a statutory age; no Senegalese statutory article could be cited for the figure.

Where to Get Help

LONASE's prevention page states that through its responsible gambling policy it undertakes to prevent excessive gambling behaviour and to direct people in difficulty towards specialist services, and that if gambling is taking up too much space in a person's life or that of someone close to them, medical and psychological teams can help in confidence (translation). Its printed warning reads "⚠️ Jouer comporte des risques : dépendance, isolement… Appelez le 800 00 50 50 pour obtenir de l'aide. Interdit aux mineurs (-18) ."

That number belongs to the health service rather than to the gambling sector, and it is worth saying so plainly. The Ministère de la Santé et de l'Action sociale publishes 800 00 50 50 as its own "Numéro vert" on its own site, and runs it through its Service National de l'Éducation et de l'Information sanitaire et sociale. The ministry describes it as a general health information line; nowhere does it describe it as a gambling, addiction or problem-gambling line. So it appears here as what the ministry says it is, and not as a national problem-gambling helpline.

LONASE's page goes on to name clinical referral services: the CEPIAD addiction centre at the Hôpital de Fann, the psychiatry service of the Hôpital Principal de Dakar, and the Dalal Xel mental-health centre in Thiès. No telephone number for any of them is printed here. None of the three publishes a site of its own, and the CEPIAD numbers LONASE prints do not match the health ministry's own record of them, so reproducing them would risk sending a reader to the wrong place.