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Licensed insurance companies in Eritrea (2026)
VerifiedVerified on statute, not against a register: the Bank of Eritrea publishes none.
The 1 insurance companies licensed in Eritrea in 2026, as recorded by the Bank of Eritrea, with the class of business and ownership each one is registered under.
Snapshot
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
“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 Eritrea
All 1 entities.
| Insurer | Class | Ownership | Group | Verification |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| National Insurance Corp of Eritrea (NICE) | CComposite | State-owned / parastatal | Government of Eritrea | Verified |
Regulatory intelligence: Eritrea
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.
- Supervisor
- Bank of Eritrea
- Regime
- Proclamation 20/1992, which established the sole insurer (NICE)
- Register source
- Proclamation 20/1992, which established the National Insurance Corporation of Eritrea (NICE) as the country's insurer; no other insurer is licensed. Confirmed by the owner on 23 Sep 2026 and consistent with the Library of Congress record of the Proclamation and with trade sources (Atlas Magazine, FAIR) describing NICE's monopoly. The Proclamation's own text was not read here (loc.gov is blocked by the egress policy).
- Verification
- Verified on statute; no register is published · Proclamation 20/1992, which established the National Insurance Corporation of Eritrea (NICE) as the country's insurer; no other insurer is licensed. Confirmed by the owner on 23 Sep 2026 and consistent with the Library of Congress record of the Proclamation and with trade sources (Atlas Magazine, FAIR) describing NICE's monopoly. The Proclamation's own text was not read here (loc.gov is blocked by the egress policy).
No market event is recorded against this register for 2026. The regime and source above are the standing facts.
Governing legislation
- Insurance supervisory legislation not verified · Institutional and insurance framework
An insurer’s incorporation or privatisation statute does not establish the present insurance supervisory framework. No substitute statute is presented here.
Verification log
Eritrea has one insurer by law: NICE, established by Proclamation 20/1992, writes both life and non-life business and no other company is licensed, so the single row is the whole market. Verified on that statutory basis and the owner's confirmation (23 Sep 2026); no register is published to read, and the Proclamation's text was not retrieved here.
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/eritrea.json
curl -s https://insurers.global/api/v1/countries/eritrea/insurers/pages/1.json- MCP: connect
https://insurers.global/mcpand callget_country_summarywith{ "country": "eritrea" }, orlist_insurerswithcountry,limitandoffsetfor paged rows. - OpenAPI 3.1: /api/v1/openapi.json · WebMCP: /.well-known/webmcp.json · Guide: /ai/ · llms.txt
- Dataset version
2026-09-08+3f3925fad259; every response carriesversion,verifiedandlicence.