Author: Joan Kitanga
More must be done on driving UN sustainable development goals forward
The insurance industry lacks a systematic mapping of sustainable products and services, warned the UN-PSI and Swiss Re at the fourth in their series o [...]
Insurers reacting fast as Covid-19 hits insurance sales hard
Some 64% of insurers have reported the value of premiums sold since the Covid-19 outbreak has plummeted, while 67% said they have seen declines in new [...]
Global resilience hit hard by Covid-19 pandemic, but insurance has key role for future
The Covid-19 pandemic is expected to reduce global macroeconomic resilience by about 20% in 2020 from 2019 levels, according to the latest annual Swis [...]
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 [...]