Category: Sustainability
VIDEO: Uniting as a strong voice will help the development of the Zambian insurance sector
Webster Twaambo, CEO of Finsbury Reinsurance and president of the Insurance Association of Zambia, talks to Liz Booth about the changing [...]
Super El Niño warnings raise urgency for collaborative African risk management efforts
Warnings that the 2026/27 El Niño could become one of the strongest on record are sharpening the focus on how Africa can prepare for a climate shock t [...]
Solar boom creates new risk-transfer opportunities for African insurers
Africa’s accelerating solar boom is creating a growing opportunity for insurers and reinsurers to provide the risk protection needed to unlock bil [...]
Why Nigeria’s creative economy needs insurance protection for resilience
For more than two decades, Nigerians watched Ngozi Nwosu bring laughter into their homes. As Peace in the popular television sitcom Fuji House of Comm [...]
Burkina Faso widens agricultural insurance to protect livestock
Having already provided cover for maize, millet, sorghum, cowpeas, groundnuts, soya, cotton, sesame, fonio, yams, potatoes and rice, Burkina Faso [...]
Nigeria insurers face test of putting fresh capital to work after raising US$813m
Nigeria’s insurers have emerged from a major recapitalisation exercise with ₦1.079 trillion (US$813 million) in fresh capital. The next test is whethe [...]
An abundance of uncertainities facing insurers, warns Munich Re
At present, the market environment is facing an abundance of uncertainties: the consequences of climate change, geopolitical tensions and rapid techno [...]
Reinsurance capital hitting record levels, says Aon
Global reinsurance capital has reached a record US$800 billion, leading Aon to suggest the market will become “more flexible” in 2027.
The views fr [...]
Santam Ltd enjoys 6% growth in net earned premium in half year results
Santam Limited, South Africa’s largest general (property and casualty) insurer and the parent company of Santam Syndicate 1918, has recorded a solid p [...]
Reinsurance: a buyers market, says Marsh Re
Insureds will find plenty of capacity as the market heads towards the January 1 reinsurance renewals, according to Marsh Re (the newly renamed Guy Car [...]