Category: Insurance

Accra, Ghana//-A  culturally appropriate model of end of life care is being developed in Ghana in order to empower countries in Africa where palliative care is scarce.

Rome, Italy// — The United Nation’s World Food Programme (WFP) is preparing to support 490,000 people in Burkina Faso, The Gambia and Mali who were impacted by drought in 2022.

Accra, Ghana//-The Ghana Insurers Association (GIA) has called on government and other stakeholders in the financial value chain to exempt the insurance companies from the domestic debt exchange programme.

Accra, Ghana//-The Deputy Secretary General of the Trades Union Congress (TUC), Joshua Ansah, has sent out a warning to government not to touch pension funds in its planned debt exchange programme.

Fire and explosion incidents cause the most expensive insurance claims in the marine industry, while at a time of rising exposures and inflation, cargo damage is the most frequent cause of loss, according to Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty (AGCS).

Accra, Ghana//-The President of the Insurance Brokers Association of Ghana (IBAG), Shaibu Ali says that the insurance Brokers are the gateway and the hub to the insurance market for excellent customer service.

Lagos, Nigeria//-Financial risks, including currency depreciation and inflation, is topping the list of challenges facing the 54 African economies in the year ahead. That’s according to a new survey of the continent’s leading insurance professionals, conducted by the pan-African reinsurer, Continental Reinsurance.

London, UK//-Steady growth in gross domestic product, together with international investment, has spurred the expansion of sub-Saharan Africa’s reinsurance market over the past decade, according to a new report from AM Best.

Accra, Ghana//-Investments of the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) worth US$206 million have been locked up in four Joint Venture projects, the 2021 report of the Auditor-General has revealed.