Regulation is finally taking shape.

Senegal illustrates this shift well. LONASE, long the historical operator in a near-monopoly position over games of chance, now also acts as the regulatory authority licensing private operators — while deepening its cooperation with CENTIF on anti-money-laundering enforcement. This dual role signals a clear intent: to bring order to a sector that grew faster than the framework meant to govern it, and to reclaim some of the value currently leaking to offshore platforms.