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Licensed insurance companies in Guinea-Bissau (2026)

PartialPartially verified against the CIMA / CRCA register, checked 2 Sept 2026.

The 2 insurance companies licensed in Guinea-Bissau in 2026, as recorded by the CIMA (regional) / Direction des Assurances (CIMA / CRCA), with the class of business and ownership each one is registered under.

2Licensed operators
0Life0% of entities
1General (non-life)50% of entities1Cross-border groups1 domestically owned

By class of business

Each company is counted once, under the class its register row records. The supervisor’s own tally counts licences, so a company licensed for more than one class appears more than once there.

By ownership

  • Domestic private1 50%
  • Pan-African group1 50%

“Cross-border groups” counts foreign multinationals and pan-regional groups; “domestically owned” counts domestic private, state-owned, mutual and captive entities. The register records the parent’s type, not its home market. How ownership is recorded

Licensed insurers in Guinea-Bissau

All 2 entities.

InsurerClassOwnershipGroupVerification
NSIA Assurances Guinée-BissauCCompositePan-African groupNSIA GroupPartial
GUINEBIS SAGGeneral (Non-life)Domestic private—Partial

Full table for Guinea-Bissau ↗

Regulatory intelligence: Guinea-Bissau

Read from the register, not written for this page: the supervisor’s regime, the source the list was checked against, and the market notes recorded alongside it.

Regime
CIMA Code; 2013 derogation on capital and licensing requirements, extended to 31 Dec 2027
Register source
CIMA/CRCA Décision n°017/D/CIMA/CRCA/PDT/2025 of 14 Feb 2025, 'infligeant une amende à la société GUINEBIS SA, Bissau 01 (République de Guinée-Bissau)' for late filing of its 2023 annual return (https://cima-afrique.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Decision-n°017-25-Infligeant-une-amende-a-la-societe-GUINEBIS.pdf, retrieved 2026-09-26). CIMA, 'Communiqué final du Conseil des Ministres du 08 août 2024' (https://cima-afrique.org/communique-final-du-conseil-des-ministres-du-08-aout-2024/, retrieved 2026-09-26) for the derogation. ECOWAS Brown Card, Guinée-Bissau national bureau page (https://www.cartebrune.org/Guinee-Bissau.html, © 2019, retrieved 2026-09-26) lists three member insurers: GUINEBIS, SUNU ASSURANCE, NSIA ASSURANCE. WHO/Ministry of Health, Guinea-Bissau National Health Accounts 2018-2021 (https://www.afro.who.int/sites/default/files/2024-05/...GUINÉ-BISSAU_2018_2021web.pdf) names 'as seguradoras NSIA e GUINEBIS'. No count of licensed companies found.
Verification
Partially verified against the regulator register · CIMA/CRCA Décision n°017/D/CIMA/CRCA/PDT/2025 of 14 Feb 2025, 'infligeant une amende à la société GUINEBIS SA, Bissau 01 (République de Guinée-Bissau)' for late filing of its 2023 annual return (https://cima-afrique.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Decision-n°017-25-Infligeant-une-amende-a-la-societe-GUINEBIS.pdf, retrieved 2026-09-26). CIMA, 'Communiqué final du Conseil des Ministres du 08 août 2024' (https://cima-afrique.org/communique-final-du-conseil-des-ministres-du-08-aout-2024/, retrieved 2026-09-26) for the derogation. ECOWAS Brown Card, Guinée-Bissau national bureau page (https://www.cartebrune.org/Guinee-Bissau.html, © 2019, retrieved 2026-09-26) lists three member insurers: GUINEBIS, SUNU ASSURANCE, NSIA ASSURANCE. WHO/Ministry of Health, Guinea-Bissau National Health Accounts 2018-2021 (https://www.afro.who.int/sites/default/files/2024-05/...GUINÉ-BISSAU_2018_2021web.pdf) names 'as seguradoras NSIA e GUINEBIS'. No count of licensed companies found.

No market event is recorded against this register for 2026. The regime and source above are the standing facts.

Governing legislation

  • Code des assurances des États membres de la CIMA · Institutional and insurance framework

    Common insurance code and regional supervision by the CRCA.

  • CIMA Council of Ministers, final communiqué of 8 August 2024 · Insurance framework

    Extension of the Guinea-Bissau derogation to 31 December 2027.

Verification log

Excluded: SUNU Assurances - listed on the 2019 Brown Card bureau page, but SUNU Group's current subsidiaries page (https://sunu-group.com/fr/notrereseau/filiales, retrieved 2026-09-26) lists 17 countries and no Guinea-Bissau entity; treated as no longer present or never locally licensed. 'Aliança Seguradora S.A., filial de Alliance Senegalês' appears only in a search snippet of a University of Lisbon thesis that could not be opened - unverified, excluded. No CRCA decision other than the GUINEBIS one names a Bissau company in 2017-2025. The CIMA derogation allows life insurers from other CIMA states to operate via branches; none was identified. Likely coverage: 2 of 2-3 insurers.

For B2B teams and AI agents

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curl -s https://africa.insurers.global/api/v1/countries/guinea-bissau.json
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