Category: Social
Battery fires increasing the risk of marine casualties, warns AGCS
Lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries are increasingly impacting shipping safety as demonstrated by a number of fires on vessels such as roll-on roll-off car [...]
African insurance market must work together to deliver on continent’s potential, CEOs agree
A lack of both financial and technical capacity continues to hinder the development of Africa’s insurance markets and threatens to derail the continen [...]
Pools might provide answers to more sustainable solutions
Working together to grow capacity maybe the only way that the African insurance market can take control of its own destiny and grow to its potential, [...]
What do consumers really think of insurance?
Changing the perception of consumers towards insurance is a slow but steady process, warn a group of journalists.
All winners of the 2022 Pan-Afric [...]
Tragic cases lead to new form of insurance to protect low-paid workers
The death of a blue-collar Kenyan worker and the delay in offering timely medical evacuation to a Bangladeshi worker in Seychelles has led to a new fo [...]
Insurers still in early stages of digital transformation process
Most African insurers admit they are they are in the early stages of their digital transformation journey, with the majority of the rest saying they a [...]
Customer resilience at the heart of sustainable insurance
The African insurance market has emerged from two years of pandemic at a bit of a crossroads, with many of the continent’s major insurance and reinsur [...]
Diversity key to building a resilient insurance company
Corporations must actively address gender parity and end discriminatory practices if they are to become sustainable and successful into a long-term fu [...]
Africa Re grows GWP in 2021 despite challenges and depreciating currencies
Despite the globally difficult economic environment in 2021, Africa Re was able to grow its gross written premium by 5.04% in 2021 to reach US$845.35m [...]
Is ESG becoming a business essential?
Since the acronym ESG (environmental, social, and governance) was coined in 2005, and until recently, its fortunes were steadily growing. To take one [...]