Tag: Editor's Pick
Uganda calls for CPD, mentorship to avert US$35.8m annual loss from insurance skills gap
Uganda’s insurance players are pushing for increased emphasis on Continuing Professional Development (CPD) and mentorship programmes in a bid to addre [...]
Zimbabwe approves marine insurance domestication rules to avert capital flight
Zimbabwean insurance firms are expecting a surge in marine insurance business after the government issued a statutory instrument for domestication of [...]
Opinion: What South Africa’s subrogation shake-up means for indemnity insurance
Subrogation usually hums quietly in the background of an indemnity policy. That was until a recent South African judgment of the Cape Town high court [...]
Nigeria’s pandemic-sparked tech revolution in insurance lives on
The Covid-19 pandemic was a global health issue that affected virtually the entire world, with dire consequences on businesses around the globe.
Th [...]
Africa’s extractive boom offers major opportunity for local insurers, suggests head of Ivory Coast risk managers’ body
In this interview, Sandé Fatola, President of the Ivorian Risk Management and Business Insurance Network (RIMRAE), discusses the various risks ass [...]
AIO Meets Ep3: Balancing competition with consumer protection
In this third podcast of The AIO Meets, Patty Karuaihe-Martin, immediate past president of the African Insurance Organisation, talks to Dr Abiba Zakar [...]
VIDEO: Providing tools to help insurers manage climate change risks
Nick Moody, co-ordinator of the risk modelling steering group at the Insurance Development Forum (IDF), talks to Liz Booth about the challenges ma [...]
Recurring civil unrest and climate shocks demand insurance for Africa’s informal sector
Africa’s insurers must innovate targeted products to protect the informal sector from the growing wave of political violence and climate-related d [...]
South Africa’s insurers brace for climate stress testing amid rising weather risks
Insurers plying their trade in South Africa will soon be subject to a climate stress testing framework similar to that applied to the banking sector s [...]
Shrinking hail insurance deals blow to Zimbabwe’s climate resilience solutions
In 2018, heavy rains left small-scale tobacco farmers in Zvimba counting their losses after extensive crop damage. Similarly, a hailstorm in 2021 dest [...]