Author: Liz Booth
Liz Booth has more than 30 years’ experience as a journalist and editor, working on a mix of consumer and business titles but, for the past decade, has concentrated on the insurance and risk sector. Having grown up in west Africa and then lived in South Africa, she has a lifelong commitment to the continent and a passionate interest in its future success.
VIDEO: What makes agreeing a placement harder?
In a recent roundtable, hosted by Afro Asian Insurance Services, a panel of leading African insurers and reinsurers debated whether it was the cost of [...]
Ploughing into agriculture insurance
The need for innovation has never been greater as Africa emerges from the Covid-19 pandemic, governments look to recovery and as insurers hope to reco [...]
AM Best says global reinsurance market stable
AM Best’s outlook on the global reinsurance segment remains at stable, as improved pricing trends for most business lines are offsetting growing claim [...]
New insurtech solution launched to support Kenya’s livestock industry
Micro Insurance Company (MIC) and Lofte Kesho are partnering to offer digital solutions to livestock farmers to improve their economic wellbeing.
M [...]
Podcast: SDGs must play key role in insurer development
Patty Karuaihe-Martin, the managing director of Namib Re, has been reappointed chairperson of the Organisation of Eastern and Southern African Insurer [...]
VIDEO: Welcome to the OESAI Annual Conference
As head of the local organising committee, Dr Ben Kajwang welcomes delegates to Mombasa for the 43rd Organisation of Eastern and Southern African Insu [...]
Insurers react as UN gives clear warning on climate change
Insurers across the world have reacted to a stark warning from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which said climate change wa [...]
Kenyan regulator urges empathy for policyholders struggling in the pandemic aftermath
The African insurance community has weathered the storm of Covid-19 very well and remains hopeful, according to Godfrey Kiptum.
The CEO of Kenya’s [...]
Clear warning for Africa on climate change issued by UN
A clear warning has been sounded by scientists across the world as the reality of climate change begins to bite – something that insurers will be watc [...]
Insurance at heart of climate change mitigation for vulnerable countries
As climate change worsens extreme weather events across the globe, the Vulnerable Twenty (V20) group of ministers of finance – comprising 48 climate-v [...]