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Licensed insurance companies in Mauritania (2026)

PartialPartially verified against the Direction du Controle des Assurances (Ministry of Finance) register, checked 2 Sept 2026.

The 18 insurance companies licensed in Mauritania in 2026, as recorded by the Direction du Controle des Assurances (Ministry of Finance), with the class of business and ownership each one is registered under.

18Licensed operators
0Life0% of entities
3General (non-life)17% of entities1Cross-border groups17 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 private15 83%
  • State-owned / parastatal1 6%
  • Pan-African group1 6%
  • Mutual / cooperative1 6%

“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 Mauritania

All 18 entities.

InsurerClassOwnershipGroupVerification
SUNU Assurances MauritanieCCompositePan-African groupSunu GroupPartial
AGM AssurancesCCompositeDomestic privateIndependentPartial
Compagnie d'Assurance et de Reassurance (CAR)CCompositeDomestic private—Partial
Compagnie Nouvelle des Assurances (CNA)CCompositeDomestic private—Partial
DAMANE AssurancesCCompositeDomestic private—Partial
El Wava AssurancesCCompositeDomestic private—Partial
Groupement des Assurances de Mauritanie (GAMA)GGeneral (Non-life)Domestic private—Partial
IMAN AssuranceCCompositeDomestic private—Partial
Mauritanienne d'Assurance et de Reassurance (MAR)GGeneral (Non-life)Domestic private—Partial
MEDINA AssurancesCCompositeDomestic private—Partial
Mutuelle SehatyUNot stated in registerMutual / cooperative—Partial
NASR (Societe Nationale d'Assurance et de Reassurance)CCompositeState-owned / parastatalGovernment of MauritaniaPartial
RIM-AssurancesCCompositeDomestic private—Partial
SALAMA Assurances MauritanieCCompositeDomestic private—Partial
Societe Anonyme d'Assurance et de Reassurance (SAAR)GGeneral (Non-life)Domestic private—Partial
Societe Generale d'Assurances (SGA)CCompositeDomestic private—Partial
Societe Mauritanienne des Assurances Islamiques (SMAI)TTakaful / IslamicDomestic private—Partial
TAAMIN AssurancesTTakaful / IslamicDomestic private—Partial

Full table for Mauritania ↗

Regulatory intelligence: Mauritania

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
Direction du Controle des Assurances (Ministry of Finance)
Regime
Loi 93-040 portant Code des assurances (1993) and its decret 2002-23; non-CIMA francophone market
Register source
Direction du Controle des Assurances, Ministere des Finances de la Republique Islamique de Mauritanie, 'Rapport sur le Marche des Assurances en Mauritanie pour l'Exercice 2022', dated December 2023, 84 pages. Section I.C 'Structures agrees' states the market is composed of seventeen (17) insurance and reinsurance companies, one (1) mutual and three (3) insurance brokers, alongside the Fonds de Garantie Automobile. Annexe 4, 'Liste des societes d'assurance et societes de courtage en assurance', names them all in French and Arabic, and pages 66-82 carry one fiche signaletique per licensed company giving its capital, its licensed branches (IARD, branche vie) and its licence arrete number and date. The live ministry host refuses TCP connections, so the file was retrieved from the Internet Archive's copy of the ministry's own URL; the archive holds identical copies under the same digest from 2024-05-15 and 2024-07-11. SHA-256 of the saved PDF: 3a9c133b859b9ba5907f2dbc29f5995e327e8d9a201c96e8f7687bedcf941faf.
Verification
Partially verified against the regulator register · Direction du Controle des Assurances, Ministere des Finances de la Republique Islamique de Mauritanie, 'Rapport sur le Marche des Assurances en Mauritanie pour l'Exercice 2022', dated December 2023, 84 pages. Section I.C 'Structures agrees' states the market is composed of seventeen (17) insurance and reinsurance companies, one (1) mutual and three (3) insurance brokers, alongside the Fonds de Garantie Automobile. Annexe 4, 'Liste des societes d'assurance et societes de courtage en assurance', names them all in French and Arabic, and pages 66-82 carry one fiche signaletique per licensed company giving its capital, its licensed branches (IARD, branche vie) and its licence arrete number and date. The live ministry host refuses TCP connections, so the file was retrieved from the Internet Archive's copy of the ministry's own URL; the archive holds identical copies under the same digest from 2024-05-15 and 2024-07-11. SHA-256 of the saved PDF: 3a9c133b859b9ba5907f2dbc29f5995e327e8d9a201c96e8f7687bedcf941faf.

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

Governing legislation

  • Insurance Code: Law 93-40; Decree 349-2019 · Institutional and insurance framework

    The ministry's market report identifies the 1993 code, amended in 2007, and article 186 of the 2019 decree defining the directorate's role. It records transfer of sector oversight to Finance in 2018.

Verification log

Reconciled against the Direction du Controle des Assurances' own 'Rapport sur le Marche des Assurances en Mauritanie, exercice 2022' (December 2023), which names all seventeen licensed insurance and reinsurance companies and the one licensed mutual and gives each company's licensed branches and licence arrete. Two of the three held rows matched (AGM, NASR), sixteen entities were added, and one row (Sanlam Assurances Mauritanie) is absent from the register and proposed for removal. The report is the 2022 exercise and predates the reported 2025 move of insurance supervision to the Banque Centrale de Mauritanie (established from news reporting only), so licences granted or withdrawn since are not covered.

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