Category: Social
Insurers challenged to move beyond paying losses to closing Africa’s resilience financing gap
Africa’s insurers and reinsurers can do way more than protect policyholders’ assets and turnovers from perils. They also have the opportunity to i [...]
Zimbabwe’s cover decline highlights need for more flexible insurance products
Zimbabwe’s insurance market could unlock wider and more sustainable coverage by offering products that better reflect customers’ cash flows on the bac [...]
Kenya’s medical insurers rethink portfolios as they pursue sustainable underwriting
Kenya’s medical insurers are putting quality ahead of quantity as they reshape portfolios to support more sustainable covers by either exiting persist [...]
Continental Re expands with new Rwanda office
Continental Reinsurance is to open an office in Rwanda after being granted a licence by the National Bank of Rwanda to establish a representative offi [...]
Aviation insurers facing new challenges as market shifts, says WTW
Aviation insurers are increasingly managing the tension between protecting short-term income and maintaining long-term profitability, according to a n [...]
Innovative financing holds key to Uganda’s national health insurance dream amid sustainability fears
For more than two decades, Uganda’s ambition to establish a National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) has remained one of the country’s most anticipated [...]
Collaboration essential if continent is to achieve disciplined, sustainable pricing
The challenges facing the African insurance market continue to put pressure on pricing, with a continued global softening in rates.
Guy Carpenter & [...]
Africa’s insurance markets must learn as risk changes
As the Organisation of Eastern and Southern Africa Insurers (OESAI) gathers around the theme of building resilience through sustainable and inclus [...]
Kenya’s College of Insurance eyes bigger role as Africa’s insurance industry evolves
Kenya’s College of Insurance is entering a new phase of growth aimed at building on a decade of transformation that has expanded its training portfoli [...]
Low natural catastrophes help Munich Re to higher first half profits
Low numbers of natural catastrophes have helped Munich Re generate a net result of €2,211m (2,085m) in the second quarter of 2026 and €3,925m (3,178m) [...]