Category: Sustainability
South Africa’s extensive autumn flooding analysed by JBA
Successive low-pressure systems brought destructive flooding, landslides and damaging winds to large parts of South Africa during May 2026, causing fa [...]
Revival of Nigerian insurer emphasises the importance of sound management
After 18 months of regulatory oversight, National Insurance Commission (NAICOM) has handed Nigerian life insurer, African Alliance Insurance Plc, to a [...]
Firms told to act now as Uganda’s ESG reporting rules draw closer
Businesses operating in Uganda, including insurers, have been urged to move swiftly in embedding Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) principles [...]
VIDEO: Time for action, not just words, says former AIO president
On the sidelines of the Africa Insurance Organisation's (AIO's) general assembly, Patty Karuaihe-Martin, former president of the organisation, dis [...]
VIDEO: Will artificial intelligence replace underwriters and brokers within the next decade?
Sam Norman Sali, managing director of Visal Reinsurance Brokers, and Cole Baidoo, chief technology officer at ALX Holdings, examine the rapid adva [...]
PODCAST: Is the Middle East going to become the hub for Africa?
In this episode of the Africa Ascending Bites podcast series, Udai Patel of Afro-Asian Insurance Services, and Liz Booth of Africa Ahead, discuss [...]
Africa’s re/insurers at the crossroads of geopolitics and the AI revolution
Africa’s insurers and reinsurers will play a significant role in enabling the reindustrialisation that is taking place as today’s apparently cyclical [...]
How Nigeria’s startups are reinventing insurance for Gen Zs
For many young Nigerians, insurance has long been viewed as a product for older people, corporate workers, or vehicle owners. But a new generation of [...]
Why technology alone cannot fix Uganda’s low insurance penetration
The insurance offer had appeared on Ogwal Geoffrey Blair’s phone so many times that he no longer noticed it. Every day, the 33-year-old passionate cyc [...]
Forum stresses role of brokerage in boosting insurance uptake in CIMA zone
Insurance brokers in the CIMA region, united within the Inter-African Federation of Insurance Advisers (FIAC), wish to play their full part in imp [...]