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Nigerian insurance sector plans ten-year strategic plan for sustainable growth
The insurance sector in Nigeria is planning ahead for a better tomorrow in terms of policy framework from ECOWAS Brown Card, appropriate premium regim [...]
Compliance is non-negotiable for insurer sustainability
Insurers plying their business in South Africa are learning the hard way that non-compliance with the country’s financial services regulations constit [...]
Africa has a golden opportunity to emerge stronger after geopolitical uncertainty of 2022, suggests Control Risks, but political risks remain
The impacts of a global economic crisis triggered by the pandemic, climate change and conflict in Ukraine have without doubt exacerbated global uncert [...]
Insurers across Africa asked to join one million tree-planting campaign
As huge areas of deforestation occur across Africa, Continental Re has urged other insurers and reinsurers to plant trees in their own countries to re [...]
PODCAST: What relevance does climate change have to Africans?
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Reinsurance capacity shortage could fuel price hikes, warn major reinsurers
Extreme inflation, rising interest rates and asset slumps currently pose challenges for the entire insurance industry alongside burdens from the war i [...]
NIA, NCRIB intensify co-operation for insurance market growth in Nigeria
The two leading associations in the Nigerian insurance sector – the Nigerian Insurers Association (NIA) and the Nigerian Council of Registered Insuran [...]
Rapid decline: another South African non-life insurer falls to solvency, liquidity concerns
The final chapter of a 70-year-old, South Africa-based, non-life insurance business is being written by the courts following a recommendation by a cou [...]
Extreme flooding causing insurers concern across the continent
In another sign that insurers cannot afford to ignore climate change and its impact on the continent, the African Centre of Meteorological Application [...]
African opportunities abound – if insurers step up to support development
Africa has immense opportunities to deliver on its potential of becoming the world’s food basket and can also provide some of the energy crisis soluti [...]