Category: Sustainability
Insurers add voice to climate change debate as COP28 ends
As the UN’s global climate talks came to a close, the insurance industry is taking stock of the decisions made and the direction that world leaders w [...]
Insurer ATIDI supports Ugandan power project
ATIDI (the African Trade Insurance Agency) is to support the 20MW Ituka West Nile Uganda Ltd solar project developed by AMEA Power, a Du [...]
VIDEO: African insurance market shares traits of South America
Margo Black Wyllie, a former supervisory board member at W-Safe, talks about her career centred in Brazil and the parallels for women working in the i [...]
Oh, so quiet: COP28’s ‘soft landing’ in Dubai
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Those expecting fireworks and razzmatazz aplenty to coincide with the United National Climate Change [...]
Counting the cost of tough renewals
After a torrid set of renewals at 1/1, 2023, the African insurance market has been bracing itself for what might follow on 1/1, 2024. Last January not [...]
Climate change and risk management solutions for Africa’s diverse agri-economy
The diverse nature of Africa’s agriculture sector, where large commercial operations often operate side by side with small-scale and subsistence farme [...]
Nigerian insurance sector tops N2.8trn, Q3 2023
The National Insurance Commission (NAICOM) says the Nigerian insurance sector achieved a total market size of N2.8trn in the third quarter of 2023.
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Eyes on Kenya insurers’ capital as regulator cancels two licences
The insurance regulator in Kenya has cancelled the licences of two insurers in one week over mounting defaults on claims payment, shining the spotligh [...]
Uganda’s medical insurance card holders fuelling huge bills
Medical card holders’ complacency is contributing to large and unsustainable medical bills for insurance underwriters, according to a study conducted [...]
How Kenya’s top bank plans to disrupt medical insurance pricing
Kenya’s largest bank by market valuation is backing outpatient clinics and ‘own drugs’ to disrupt the pricing of medical insurance, barely two years a [...]