Central Africa · CD · CDF
Democratic Republic of the Congo
RD CongoRepubilika ya Kongo DemokratikiRepubliki ya Kongó Demokratiki
12 licensed entities supervised by the Autorite de Regulation et de Controle des Assurances.
- Listed insurers
- 12
- Insurance classes
- 3
- Groups present
- 5
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DR Congo
- French
- RD Congo
- Kongo
- Repubilika ya Kongo Demokratiki
- Lingala
- Republiki ya Kongó Demokratiki
- Luba-Lulua
- Ditunga dia Kongu wa Mungalaata
- Swahili
- Jamhuri ya Kidemokrasia ya Kongo
Name reference: mledoze/countries · ODbL data · ODbL licence. Flag artwork: flag-icons · MIT.
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
Verification log
Verified - full register · ARCA RDC, "L'etat du marche des assurances en RDC en 2024" (published Dec 2025), Annexe "Listes des operateurs": 10 insurers (3 life, 7 non-life) and 2 reinsurers; matches the ARCA "Societes d'assurances" and "Societes re-assurances" operator pages. Retrieved 22 Sep 2026.
Reconciled to ARCA's list of licensed operators for 2024: 7 of 8 rows matched, SONAS corrected to General (licensed non-life, 12007), Sunu Assurances Vie RDC removed as not licensed, and 5 added (Afrissur, Activa Vie RDC, Global Pioners Assurance, and the reinsurers Africa Re and Zep Re). Health-insurance managers, brokers, banks and agents on the same list are excluded.
Licensed insurers in Democratic Republic of the Congo
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| Company | Class | Parent / group | Ownership | Regulator | Verification | Popularity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SONASState-owned Former monopoly until 2019 liberalisation; Registered as Societe Nationale d'Assurance SA (Sonas) | GGeneral (Non-life) | Government of DRC | State-owned / parastatal | ARCA | Verified | — |
| Activa Assurances RDC Registered as Activa Assurances SA (web page: ACTIVA ASSURANCES RDC SA) | GGeneral (Non-life) | Activa Group | Pan-African group | ARCA | Verified | 75 Confidence: Low |
| Mayfair Insurance Co RDC Registered as Mayfair Insurance Congo SA (MIC) | GGeneral (Non-life) | Mayfair Group | Pan-African group | ARCA | Verified | — |
| Rawsur | GGeneral (Non-life) | Rawbank / Rawji Group | Domestic private | ARCA | Verified | — |
| SFA Congo Societe Financiere d'Assurance; Registered as Societe Financiere d'Assurances (SFA Congo) | GGeneral (Non-life) | Independent | Domestic private | ARCA | Verified | — |
| Sunu Assurances IARD RDC | GGeneral (Non-life) | Sunu Group | Pan-African group | ARCA | Verified | — |
| Rawsur Life | LLife | Rawbank / Rawji Group | Domestic private | ARCA | Verified | 58 Confidence: Low |
| Afrissur SA Licence 11002. Ownership not researched. | LLife | Parent not named in register | Domestic private | ARCA | Verified | — |
| Activa Vie RDC Licence 11003. Activa-branded life sister of row 369; ownership not researched.; Registered as Activa Vie RDC (web page: ACTIVA VIE RDC SA) | LLife | Parent not named in register | Domestic private | ARCA | Verified | — |
| Global Pioners Assurance SA (GPA) Licence 12006. ARCA spells the name two ways (report: "Global Pioners", web page: "Global Pionner"); the report spelling is used. Ownership not researched.; Registered as Global Pioners Assurance SA (GPA) (web page: GLOBAL PIONNER ASSURANCE SA « GPA ») | GGeneral (Non-life) | Parent not named in register | Domestic private | ARCA | Verified | — |
| Africa Re Listed by ARCA as a reinsurance operator with no licence number. RG because Africa Re is an intergovernmental reinsurer; ownership not otherwise researched. | RReinsurer | Africa Re | Regional / multilateral | ARCA | Verified | — |
| Zep Re Listed by ARCA as a reinsurance operator with no licence number. RG because Zep Re is the COMESA regional reinsurer; ownership not otherwise researched. | RReinsurer | ZEP-RE | Regional / multilateral | ARCA | Verified | — |
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Popularity is an estimate of how often people search Google for each insurer, from 0 to 100; the bars show how confident the estimate is. Not a rating of the insurer. How the index works
Former and deregistered companies
Names once listed in Democratic Republic of the Congo and no longer in use. A company that was renamed, merged or acquired is counted under the name it has today; the names below are counted in no total on this page.
| Former name | What happened | Listed today as |
|---|---|---|
| Sunu Assurances Vie RDC | No longer on the register | Not recorded |
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