Tag: Editor's Pick
Why Africa’s power gaps and fragmented grids need insurers at the table
A month out from the important Energy Indaba 2026 in Cape Town and a week before the equally important Mining Indaba, the World Economic Forum (WE [...]
Kenya draws foreign capital as insurers and banks expand east for growth
Kenya has emerged as one of Africa’s most attractive insurance and banking frontiers, drawing increasing interest from foreign players seeking growth [...]
Opinion: Political risk insurance could encourage more investments into developing countries
ENS Africa, one of Africa’s largest law firms, explains why and how political risk insurance (PRI) could drive more investment into developing countri [...]
How Uganda is transforming its financial system for sustainability agenda
In the quiet corridors of Uganda’s financial regulatory bodies, there is a profound shift taking place—one that moves beyond the traditional metrics o [...]
Annual life policies reshape Zimbabwe’s insurance market, raising regulatory and consumer risks
Zimbabwe’s life insurance industry is undergoing a quiet but significant transformation. Products once designed to span decades, including whole-life [...]
Life insurance deserves more spotlight in the CIMA zone, says NSIA Assurances Togo managing director
With over 25 years of experience in the insurance sector in Europe and Africa, Constant Yao Djeket, current Managing Director of NSIA Assurances T [...]
VIDEO: ESG a work in progress for African insurers
Roelof Coertze, Prudential plc's environment director, talks to Africa Ahead about his work and the way in which African insurers are adopting ESG [...]
Africa’s 2026 insurance calendar sends clear message that sustainability is not about to slip off the agenda
As Africa’s insurance sector begins 2026, one clear theme emerges from the continent’s packed conference calendar: sustainability. This is building on [...]
Breaking the drought cycle: How the DRIVE insurance programme is redefining climate risk resilience for Horn of Africa pastoralists
Rhoda Rubaiza, project lead, and Regina Kwengwere, monitoring and evaluation expert, at ZEP-RE PTA Reinsurance Company, reveals the successes of t [...]
Reinsurers weigh climate change against human and infrastructure factors amid rising losses
Global reinsurers are content presenting their 2025 natural catastrophe loss reports with a climate change backdrop, despite one of the year’s costlie [...]