Tag: Editor's Pick
Africa’s reinsurers urged to scale up as demand for credit insurance surges
Reinsurers operating in Africa have been challenged to step up the reinsurance capacity of credit insurance as the cover becomes a critical instru [...]
Uganda insurers challenged to overhaul products to match customers’ economic realities
Insurance stakeholders have been challenged to rethink how they design and deliver products, with a strong call to align offerings to the real financi [...]
VIDEO: Regulators prepping industry for myriad challenges
With the Gulf war continuing and the insurance sector facing many challenges, a group of regulators spoke at the 11th Continental Re Summit of the nee [...]
PODCAST: Shaping changing regulation in the Zambian market
As part of the Africa Ascending Bites podcast series and after a recent visit to Zambia, Udai Patel, of Afro Asian Insurance Services, and Liz Boo [...]
Africa’s insurance executives challenged to move from talk to action amid evolving risk landscape
The authors are winners at the recent Continental Re 11th Pan-African Re/Insurance Journalism Awards 2026. Henry Uche topped the English Online ca [...]
How AI risks in compliance spill over into broader insurance sustainability
The elephant in the room in the 21st-century risk landscape is not how insurers and reinsurers are deploying artificial intelligence (AI) across the i [...]
World Bank-backed satellite cover showcases climate risk transfer with record payouts in a week
When the October-December rains failed across the Horn of Africa, 71,290 pastoralist families didn't have to wait. By the time governments gathered to [...]
Mixed bag for insurers as Uganda tables tax amendments
Uganda’s proposed tax amendments for the financial year 2026-2027 are drawing mixed reactions, with players in the insurance sector warning that some [...]
Nigeria sets stage for policyholders’ compensation with new guidelines
Insurance companies in Nigeria will begin contributing 0.25% of their net premium income to a dedicated compensation fund for policyholders in the eve [...]
Emeritus Re positions for growth with CIMA zone expansion
After 40 years in the southern African insurance market, with a presence in Zimbabwe, Botswana, Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia, the reinsurance com [...]