Pharmaceutical Industry Blog

Last Updated: August 17, 2026 TL;DR: Senegal's pharmaceutical market is regulated by the Agence sénégalaise de Réglementation Pharmaceutique (ARP), created in 2022 (Decree No. 2022-824) and formalized under Law No. 2023-06, which absorbed the former Direction de la Pharmacie et du Médicament (DPM). In December 2024, ARP became the first Francophone African regulator to reach WHO Maturity Level 3, though Senegal, like the rest of West Africa, is not a PIC/S member. As a WAEMU/

Last Updated: August 17, 2026 TL;DR: Somalia's pharmaceutical oversight is administered by the National Medicines Regulatory Authority (NMRA), operating under the Federal Ministry of Health & Human Services as an Interim NMRA since 2023, built on the 1989 pharmacy law and the 2014 National Medicines Policy, with a roadmap benchmarked against WHO's Global Benchmarking Tool. Somalia has not yet achieved a formal WHO maturity rating and sits outside PIC/S, so import approval in