On Monday, March 17, 2025, an agreement signing ceremony took place between the Pharmaceutical Regulatory Agency (Arp) and the Senegalese Society of Medical-Pharmaceutical Promotion Agencies (SOSEAP). The implementation of this agreement will pave the way for the automatic registration of pharmaceutical products in the other countries of the West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA

La Soseap est responsable de l' approvisionnement de 80% des médicaments consommés ici au Sénégal, selon Souleymane Mbengue, its president. According to him, “qwhen we talk about the importation of drugs, we first talk about marketing authorization called marketing authorizations, which are called marketing authorizations. And there was a pile of over 1,000 files that slept here. And what we noticed was that with the new managing director, when he arrived, this entire stock was totally annihilated.” He also recalled the various advantages of this partnership.

“Once a visa is obtained in Senegal, actors, i.e. laboratories and agents, could directly obtain authorizations in Niger and other countries that are in progress, for example Côte d'Ivoire and Burkina Faso. The comparative advantage is not only for us, the people who live in the community space, but above all, us for Soseap. We are hiring Senegalese. And so, we need expansion. This expansion, thanks to these conventions, can go to Niger and other countries very soon,” he said.