Liz Booth
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Africa
Aon sells its business in six African countries
Aon plc has sold its share of its employee benefit, insurance and reinsurance brokerage operations in Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia,…
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Africa
Water risk in Tanzania high, warns World Bank
Tanzania needs to urgently improve water management if it is to avoid the risk of drought becoming a brake on…
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Africa
Cape Verde sets itself up as Africa business hub
Cape Verde is setting itself up as the business hub of Africa, encouraging international trade and intra-Africa trade. Prime Minister…
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Africa
Bank launches new guarantee to help investors in Africa
The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) plans to de-risk African transactions and make them more attractive to investors through a new…
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Africa
Ugandan customs process set for improvement
Getting goods in and out of Uganda should become smoother as the Chinese government gives the Uganda government a grant…
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Africa
Brexit offers ‘unprecedented’ opportunity for UK-Africa trading
The UK’s exit from the European Union offers an unprecedented opportunity for greater trade with Africa, despite concerns across the…
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Africa
Africa Re’s profits hit by large losses
Africa Re saw profits tumble, despite premium growth, after catastrophe and other large losses in South Africa, central Africa and…
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Africa
Pirates taking to the internet to plan raids
Julian Clark, head of global shipping at Hill Dickinson, explains to David Kaye why a ship raid by Somali pirates…
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Africa
ATI launches services in Zimbabwe
Credit insurer African Trade Insurance Agency (ATI) has launched its services in Zimbabwe, after signing an agreement with the central…
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Africa
Lonmin risk manager tops the South Africa risk awards for 2017
Brendan Maseti has scooped the Risk Manager of the Year 2017 award at the Institute of Risk Management South Africa’s…
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Africa
Intra-Africa trade set to become easier
Private sector businesses are confident of boosting more trade between Ghana and Kenya as the African Union (AU) designs a…
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Africa
Risk around urban population growth increases in South Africa
Investors and businesses need a safe place to operate, however the growth in South Africa’s cities continues to cause concern.…
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Africa
African reinsurance market offers opportunity despite challenges
The African reinsurance and insurance markets continue to offer opportunities, despite the challenges, according to Corneille Karekezi, group managing director…
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Africa
Ease of doing business improves across Africa
Businesses and governments alike have welcomed findings from the World Bank, which show that Sub Saharan Africa economies adopted a…
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Africa
Global risks are coming
Reporting from the 22nd African Reinsurance Forum of the African Insurance Organization in Mauritius, Liz Booth finds speakers discussing cyber…
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Africa
Carnage’ ahead as a decade of low insurance prices ends
Risk managers must expect a rapid increase in their insurance bill as they head into 2018, warned South African brokers,…
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Africa
Industry welcomes sanctions relief for Sudan
News that the US has lifted most of the economic and trade sanctions on Sudan has been met with relief…
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Africa
Stronger links with rest of world for southern African risk managers
Southern African risk managers may be on the cusp of receiving international recognition for their qualifications from five of the…
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Africa
Political risk still a threat
As I write this, Kenyans have been to the polls (or not) in a re-run of the August presidential elections.…
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Africa
Protectionism may backfire across Sub Saharan African insurance markets
Protectionism in Africa’s insurance markets may backfire and actually restrict market development, according to a new report from AM Best.…