With some major elections looming across Africa and as part of the Africa Ascending Bites podcast series, Udai Patel, of Afro Asian Insurance Services [...]
In rural Zimbabwe, communal farmers would prepare their land in June and July, ahead of time, waiting for the first rains in October. Most of the peop [...]
The persistently low level of insurance penetration in Nigeria despite a population exceeding 250 million, is a structural market [...]
The African insurance sector has turned a new page in its history as the Federation of African National Insurance Companies (F [...]
The global insurance industry is navigating a cyclical slowdown, but profitability is holding up, according to Swiss Re.
In its [...]
Africa Re at 50 signals maturity of African reinsurance market
The African Reinsurance Corporation has celebrated the 50th anniversary of its f [...]
Mikir Shah, CEO at Africa Specialty Risks, talks to Liz Booth about the fresh influx of capital into the African insurance market and explains why it is taking a more [...]
Successive low-pressure systems brought destructive flooding, landslides and damaging winds to large parts of South Africa during May 2026, causing fatalities, widespread damage to [...]