Author: Joan Kitanga
Tough competition is threatening African insurers’ sustainability
Players in the insurance sector have been urged to rethink their predatory pricing strategies as they are hampering the growth of the insurance sector [...]
ILRI to launch livestock insurance for Sahel and Horn of Africa
Nairobi-headquartered International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) is launching an index-based livestock insurance for the Sahel and the Horn of [...]
Quality of data helping to deepen understanding of climate change impact
Improving data and a better understanding of that data is enabling a truer picture of climate change and its potential across Africa, heard delegates [...]
Food security becomes key insurance concern
Food security is fast becoming a key insurance concern, as populations struggle under the combined threat of Covid-19 and continuing severe weather ac [...]
New appointment to drive Agritask proposition in Africa
Precision agronomics company Agritask has appointed Daniel Stander, a pioneer in decision science and resilience finance, as senior adviser to its lea [...]
Warning for insurers as 62% of Kenyans looking to cut the price of their insurance
In what is a clear warning sign for insurers, a new survey has revealed that 62% of Kenyans are looking for better deals on their insurance premium as [...]
Is this the new normal?
When the South African government first announced a national lockdown back in March, countless businesses were left scrambling to make working from ho [...]
Santam to make urgent relief payments on CBI policies
Business interruption (BI) policies have borne the brunt of policyholder criticism throughout the Covid-19 pandemic across Africa. Policyholders have [...]
Climate change becoming a reality, warns Munich Re
While insurers across Africa might be taking heart from the latest natural catastrophe figures for the first half of this year, the message is that cl [...]
Report: Covid-19 presents an opportunity for insurers
The ability for insurers across Africa to operate has been severely hampered by Covid-19, as it had previously required face-to-face engagement much o [...]