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.
Blue economy of enormous value to African states
“The blue economy can be a site of economic production, which through its value chain process can link small, medium and big production firms and ther [...]
Smartphones to revolutionise credit scoring in Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa accounts for 45.6% of mobile money activity which is estimated at more than $1.3 billion per day globally.
One expert suggests t [...]
ARC pays out almost US$750,000 to Ivory Coast after drought
African Risk Capacity Insurance (ARC) has handed a cheque for almost FCFA443,000,000 (equivalent of US$738,539) to the Ivory Coast government to provi [...]
Video: A definition of sustainable insurers
Elias Omondi, an actuary at Kenya’s Insurance Regulatory Authority, provides the regulator’s definition of sustainable insurance [...]
Insurance key as African Risk Capacity and UN sign deal to boost financial tools
Insurance will lie at the heart of a new deal between the African Risk Capacity (ARC) and the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNC [...]
Africa set to build resilience through takaful insurance
Takaful insurance is set to play an even bigger role in building African insurance markets and increasing resilience, while reducing the protection ga [...]
FSD Africa report reveals how insurance helps individuals and households concentrate on their day-to-day lives
Insurance has a strong role in combatting poverty and advancing development, in at least three ways, according to a new report from FSD Africa, includ [...]
Boosts for agriculture insurance across Africa
Continental Reinsurance and Blue Marble Microinsurance have both announced new products for the agriculture insurance sector, as credit insurer Coface [...]
Video: Winning the business case to invest in new markets
How can insurance become affordable to those who don’t have a dollar a day to buy it? Jeremy Leach, CEO of Inclusivity Solutions, argues there is [...]
UN launches first guide for insurers to protect world heritage sites
The first guide for the insurance industry to protect world heritage sites, which include Victoria Falls, has been launched by the UN Environment’s Fi [...]