Liz Booth
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Africa
Corruption tops the risk list – yet again – in South Africa
Increasing corruption is the top South African risk for the second time in three years and is the fifth highest…
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Africa
Uganda forms oil and gas syndicate
A syndicate of 16 insurance companies is aiming to collect $100m in annual premium income from the oil and…
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Africa
Welcome to the new world order
It seems everyone is an expert on everything right now. Turning on the breakfast news this morning, I was greeted…
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Africa
Kenya’s insurance compensation more than doubles
Policyholders of collapsed insurance companies in Kenya will be paid up to $2,500 – an increase of more than…
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Africa
Risk management to the fore in 2017
Good risk management will be key in the year ahead, as businesses face myriad challenges, both new and old.…
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Africa
Atradius reveals world’s top emerging markets
Ivory Coast is among the global leading emerging market economies (EMEs) to watch, according to trade credit insurer Atradius.…
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Africa
GIC Re records Africa annual growth of 125%
Bringing its expertise and experience from India across to Sub Saharan Africa, GIC Re has seen growth of 125%…
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Africa
Court rejects Nigerian claims against Shell
Lawyers for more than 40,000 Nigerians will appeal an English High Court judgment handed down, which ruled that two polluted…
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Africa
SSA remains near bottom of the global corruption index
Botswana remains the least corrupt country in Sub Saharan Africa, according to Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index 2016, in…
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Africa
US lifts sanctions on Sudan
Lawyers at Steptoe & Johnson report that on 17 January 2017, the US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control…
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Africa
French risk managers continue support of African colleagues
French risk management association AMRAE continues its investment in support of the growing French-speaking Africa risk management community as it…
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Africa
Changing CIMA regulations expected to spark wave of mergers, acquisitions
A large wave of mergers and acquisitions is expected across the French Africa region, following the recent reforms under…
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Africa
Learning from each other
Last year, Tsitsi Chitsamatanga participated in our Risk Frontiers Africa survey along with more than 900 other risk managers and…
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Africa
Product recall legislation on the rise in southern Africa
Risk managers need to be aware that South Africa’s Consumer Protection Act 68 of 2008 (CPA), which came into effect…
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Africa
Kenya — Uncertainty ahead in 2017
National elections provide a period of excitement, especially in growing democracies, but in Kenya it is time for hopelessness.…
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Africa
Food, glorious food
Africa has sometimes been described as the world’s bread basket, but much of the continent is still plagued with difficulties…
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Africa
Agriculture insurance finds more backers in east Africa
Use of agriculture insurance in Africa is expected to peak in the medium term, as governments and development partners…
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Africa
Drought-wracked southern Africa has seen its agricultural sector hit hard
Primary agriculture makes up around 3% of South Africa’s GDP, with the extended value chain contributing as much as…
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Africa
Growing African population set to deliver challenges to agriculture sector
The need for food across Africa is set to increase rapidly as the population expands. As Prince Cookey reports from…
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Africa
Miller facultative property team grows
Mark Sherwin has joined the facultative property team at Miller, working with the team in London in a broking…