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Licensed insurance companies in Rwanda (2026)

PartialPartially verified against the BNR register, checked 2 Sept 2026.

The 14 insurance companies licensed in Rwanda in 2026, as recorded by the National Bank of Rwanda (BNR), with the class of business and ownership each one is registered under.

14Licensed operators
3Life21% of entities9General (non-life)64% of entities6Cross-border groups8 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 private7 50%
  • Pan-African group6 43%
  • State-owned / parastatal1 7%

“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 Rwanda

All 14 entities.

InsurerClassOwnershipGroupVerification
Old Mutual Insurance Rwanda (ex-UAP)GGeneral (Non-life)Pan-African groupOld Mutual LtdPartial
Sanlam Allianz Rwanda (ex-SORAS)GGeneral (Non-life)Pan-African groupSanlam AllianzPartial
Sanlam Life Insurance RwandaLLifePan-African groupSanlam AllianzPartial
Britam Insurance RwandaGGeneral (Non-life)Pan-African groupBritam HoldingsPartial
Mayfair Insurance Co RwandaGGeneral (Non-life)Pan-African groupMayfair GroupPartial
MUA Insurance Rwanda (ex-Phoenix)GGeneral (Non-life)Pan-African groupMUA (Mauritius Union)Partial
BK General InsuranceGGeneral (Non-life)Domestic privateBK GroupPartial
Eden Care MedicalHHealth / MedicalDomestic privateIndependentPartial
Prime InsuranceGGeneral (Non-life)Domestic privatePrime HoldingsPartial
Prime Life AssuranceLLifeDomestic privatePrime HoldingsPartial
Radiant Insurance CoGGeneral (Non-life)Domestic privateIndependentPartial
Rwanda Social Security Board (RSSB) - MedicalHHealth / MedicalState-owned / parastatalGovernment of RwandaPartial
SONARWA General InsuranceGGeneral (Non-life)Domestic privateRwanda Social Security Board / IndependentPartial
SONARWA Life AssuranceLLifeDomestic privateSONARWAPartial

Full table for Rwanda ↗

Regulatory intelligence: Rwanda

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
Insurance Law 2009 (as amended)
Register source
Compiled from market knowledge; regulator register not retrieved - verify
Verification
Partially verified against the regulator register · BNR licensed-insurers PDF (Jan 2025) is image-only; company names confirmed via BNR page metadata (Sanlam Allianz, Prime, Old Mutual, Eden Care)

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

Governing legislation

  • Law 48/2017 on the National Bank; Insurance Business Law 030/2021 · Institutional and insurance framework

    BNR issues insurance prudential regulations under its central-bank mandate and the 2021 insurance law, including the risk-based capital requirements published in February 2025.

Verification log

Knowledge-based list retained; matches known 14 private + 2 public insurers

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