Tag: Feature
Nigerian insurance market has significant potential for growth
AM Best has concluded Nigeria's substantial oil and gas reserves, its young and growing population and its position as Africa's largest economy contin [...]
Agrifinance project launched for Ethiopia
A new project has been launched in Ethiopia to encourage insurance products through rural finance institutions, to allow smallholder farmers to mitiga [...]
Insurance media awards open for sixth year
Business journalists from across Africa are invited to submit, within the next three months, entries for the sixth edition of the Pan-African Re/Insur [...]
Insurers seeing value in digitalisation
While about 5% of African insurance premium has been generated digitally, that number could rise as high as 50% if insurers invest in technology, acco [...]
Jubilee-Allianz agree deal to increase insurance awareness across east Africa
Jubilee Holdings Limited (Jubilee Insurance), east Africa’s largest insurance group, and Allianz, one of the world's leading insurers and asset manage [...]
Women in insurance across Africa meet to strengthen ties
The Organisation of Eastern and Southern Africa Insurers (OESAI) has been driving the diversity agenda among insurers across Africa. It recently partn [...]
Ugandan market proving resilient in face of Covid-19
The insurance industry in Uganda continued to see increased business in Q2 2020, according to data released by the Insurance Regulatory Authority (IRA [...]
Speedy resolution unlikely as insureds seek BI certainty through the courts
South Africa’s non-life insurers have acknowledged the 15 September 2020 ruling handed down by the UK High Court in a test case brought against eight [...]
VIDEO: Insurers and the media must work together to drive insurance penetration into new segments
Zimbabwean insurance regulator Grace Muradzikwa warns the industry that it must do more to promote the good things that the insurance in [...]
New reinsurer puts ESG at heart of its African business
A new reinsurer is opening for business across Africa, with environmental, social and governance (ESG) considerations at its heart
Africa Specialty [...]