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Regulatory changes · Conférence Interafricaine des Marchés d'Assurances (CIMA)

CIMA zone insurance regulatory changes (2026)

5 of 12 member registers verified against the supervisor’s own list; last checked 2 Sept 2026.

Fourteen francophone African states apply a single insurance code, the CIMA Code, under the 1992 Yaoundé treaty; licences are granted by the Regional Commission for Insurance Supervision (CRCA) with each state's national insurance directorate handling the file.

12Markets
174Licensed insurers
5Verified registersof 12 markets
0Recorded eventsregister notes for 2026

Supervisors and regimes by market

12 of the zone’s members are in the directory; not yet held: Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau.

MarketSupervisorRegimeLicensed insurersRegister
Côte d'IvoireCIMA (regional) / Direction des Assurances CIMA / CRCACIMA Code; 14-state single regulator41Verified
CameroonCIMA (regional) / Direction des Assurances CIMA / CRCACIMA Code29Verified
SenegalCIMA (regional) / Direction des Assurances CIMA / CRCACIMA Code28Partial
Burkina FasoCIMA (regional) / Direction des Assurances CIMA / CRCACIMA Code15Verified
BeninCIMA (regional) / Direction des Assurances CIMA / CRCACIMA Code13Verified
GabonCIMA (regional) / Direction des Assurances CIMA / CRCACIMA Code12Verified
MaliCIMA (regional) / Direction des Assurances CIMA / CRCACIMA Code12Partial
NigerCIMA (regional) / Direction des Assurances CIMA / CRCACIMA Code8Partial
TogoCIMA (regional) / Direction des Assurances CIMA / CRCACIMA Code7Unverified
Republic of the CongoCIMA (regional) / Direction des Assurances CIMA / CRCACIMA Code6Partial
ChadCIMA (regional) / Direction des Assurances CIMA / CRCACIMA Code2Unverified
Central African RepublicCIMA (regional) / Direction des Assurances CIMA / CRCACIMA Code1Unverified

Regulatory changes in 2026

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.

No member register carries a recorded market event for 2026 yet. The supervisors and regimes above are the standing facts; each country page holds its verification log.

Zone bodies: CIMA

For B2B teams and AI agents

The same rows as static JSON, no key, CORS open, CC BY 4.0. Paged files stay under 96 KB so an agent’s fetch tool never truncates them.

curl -s https://insurers.global/api/v1/countries.json
curl -s https://insurers.global/api/v1/countries/cote-divoire.json
curl -s https://insurers.global/api/v1/countries/cameroon.json
curl -s https://insurers.global/api/v1/countries/senegal.json
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  • Dataset version 2026-09-08+3f3925fad259; every response carries version, verified and licence.