Category: Sustainability
Boost for microinsurance from African Development Bank
African women will be able to access microinsurance more easily thanks to a grant from the African Development Bank (AfDB) for research that will incr [...]
VIDEO: Changes ahead as Continental Re cements its position in African reinsurance market
Almost 35 years after it was founded in Lagos, Nigeria, Continental Reinsurance has announced its group managing director, Dr Femi Oyetunji, is to [...]
Kenyan regulator starts payments for failed insurers
The Kenyan Insurance Regulatory Authority (IRA) has started making a KSH250,000 payout to policyholders and beneficiaries of collapsed insurers, accor [...]
Sanlam Namibia encourages young people to launch businesses
Sanlam has opened its entrepreneurial support programme, Sanlam Bridge. The programme is a launchpad for Namibia’s future business leaders who have in [...]
Renewable energy leads demand for CPRI, says broker
Credit and political risk insurance (CPRI) broker BPL Global has published its annual Market Insight report, revealing a snapshot of claims, emerging [...]
Reminder for South African insurers on compliance
South Africa’s insurers face fines of up to ZAR6,950 for failing to furnish the country’s regulatory authority with the necessary returns.
The pena [...]
Africa to bear brunt of water shortages with massive infrastructure shortfall
The United Nations warns that the world could face a 40% shortfall in water supply by 2030, with Africa – which already suffers from greater levels of [...]
Minet Kenya named as best business insurance broker
Insurance broker Minet Kenya has been named as the overall best insurance broker of the year for 2020, during the Think Business Insurance Awards.
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New business development executive for ASR
Africa Specialty Risks Group (ASR), the pan-Africa-focused reinsurance group, has appointed Constança Sampaio Soares, who joins as one of the company’ [...]
Kenyan insurer moves towards virtual model
Medical provider AAR Insurance Kenya has launched a new mobile app as part of what it says is a strategy to become a branchless and paperless insurer. [...]