Author: Joan Kitanga
Entries open for the 12th Pan African Re/Insurance Journalism Awards
Business and financial journalists from across Africa are invited to submit entries for the 12th edition of the Pan African Re/Insurance Journalis [...]
Ouverture des candidatures pour la 12e édition des prix panafricains du journalisme de la (ré)assurance
Les journalistes économiques et financiers de toute l’Afrique sont invités à soumettre leurs candidatures pour la 12e édition des Prix panafricains du [...]
APA Apollo expands into Tanzania
Kenyan-based insurer APA Apollo Group has acquired a 66.7% stake in Tanzania’s Meticulous General Insurance Company and Metro Life Assurance Company, [...]
Liberty looks to develop better support for cyclone insurance
Liberty Mutual Reinsurance (LM Re) and Celest.Science are to explore the development of a potential fallback methodology intended to support event cha [...]
Agricultural insurers have opportunity to protect against food insecurity in years ahead, says Eurobase report
Agricultural insurance is among the most common insurance policies sold in Africa, however, the sector is dominated by smallholder farmers who depend [...]
ZEP-RE’s Hope Murera named as deputy chair at IDF
The steering committee of the Insurance Development Forum (IDF) has appointed Hope Murera as its deputy chair.
As managing director and group CEO o [...]
Afreximbank and ZEP-RE sign MoU on building professional capacity across Africa
African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) and ZEP-Re have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to build professional and institutional capacity i [...]
Continental Re expands with new Rwanda office
Continental Reinsurance is to open an office in Rwanda after being granted a licence by the National Bank of Rwanda to establish a representative offi [...]
Embedding risk management key to development planning, suggests IDF
The Insurance Development Forum (IDF) will look to embed risk management earlier in development planning and investment decisions to help build resili [...]
Mozambique ship hit by Houthis in latest Red Sea terror escalation
A Mozambique-flagged LPG tanker carrying 28 Indian crew members was attacked in Iranian territorial waters on Friday, the Indian embassy in Tehran h [...]