Insurers.globalAfrica

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Explore 1,237 insurers across 54 markets. Discover who operates where, how they’re owned, and who regulates them.

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1,237Licensed insurers1,237 Africa54Countries covered34 verified against a full register40Supervisory authorities50Multi-country groups

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You ask Claude
“Which insurers are licensed in Morocco, and who regulates them?”

It calls get_country_summary and answers from the register:

Regulator
Autorite de Controle des Assurances et de la Prevoyance Sociale (ACAPS)
Licensed insurers
25

Verified against the regulator register

See Morocco in the directory

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A world of insurance. Within reach.

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World map of covered insurance markets
Licensed insurers per country1–56–1213–2324–3839+not yet covered

A broader perspective

Follow the connections.

Across borders

One group. Many markets.

Explore the companies behind the names and see their footprint across the directory.

Behind the directory

Every record has a source.

Understand the registers, research and verification behind each market’s coverage.

Browse Africa by region

Africa: six sub-regions

Markets from Morocco to South Africa, each read from its supervisor’s register where one is published.

All 54 countries
7 countries

North Africa

218 licensed insurers

Arabic- and French-speaking markets from Morocco to Egypt, with strong state carriers and takaful.

Libya66Egypt38Tunisia27Algeria25
15 countries

West Africa

273 licensed insurers

ECOWAS and CIMA-zone markets where pan-African groups such as Sunu, NSIA and Sanlam Allianz dominate.

Nigeria51Ghana48Côte d'Ivoire41Senegal28
9 countries

Central Africa

92 licensed insurers

CEMAC markets supervised under the CIMA code, plus DR Congo under its own regulator.

Cameroon29Angola23Democratic Republic of the Congo12Gabon12
10 countries

East Africa

205 licensed insurers

The East African Community and Horn markets, led by Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Ethiopia.

Kenya64Tanzania40Uganda36Burundi23
9 countries

Southern Africa

387 licensed insurers

SADC markets anchored by South Africa, the continent’s deepest insurance sector.

South Africa140Zimbabwe69Botswana39Zambia38
4 countries

Indian Ocean

62 licensed insurers

Island markets with outsized reinsurance and offshore activity relative to population.

Mauritius32Seychelles16Comoros9Madagascar5

Largest markets

Where the licences are

Africa

  1. South Africa140
  2. Zimbabwe69
  3. Libya66
  4. Kenya64
  5. Nigeria51

Classes of business

What they are licensed to write

Ownership

  • Domestic private 731
  • Pan-African group 304
  • Foreign multinational 78
  • State-owned / parastatal 66
  • Ownership unverified 26
  • Mutual / cooperative 24
  • Regional / multilateral 8

2026 market notes

Regulatory events shaping the register

For AI agents

Query the directory without scraping

Every page registers WebMCP tools through navigator.modelContext, and the same data is published as a static JSON API with an OpenAPI description and an llms.txt.

Read the agent guideTry /api/v1/countries.json
						curl https://africa.insurers.global/api/v1/countries/morocco.json | jq '.regulator, .total'