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IRA-U register: licensed insurers in Uganda
VerifiedVerified against the IRA-U register, checked 2 Sept 2026.
The IRA-U register for Uganda as the directory holds it: 36 licensed insurers with the identifiers the register carries, ready to export as JSON.
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
IRA-U register rows
All 36 entities.
Regulatory intelligence: Uganda
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
- Insurance Regulatory Authority of Uganda IRA-U
- Regime
- Insurance Act 2017
- Register source
- IRA Uganda licensed companies list 2025 (perpetual licences); IRA-U 2026 headcount confirmed
- Verification
- Verified against the regulator register · IRA-U registers licensed for 2026, retrieved 9 Sep 2026: Licensed Insurance Companies (ira.go.ug, uploaded Aug 2026), Approved Re-Insurance Companies and Approved HMOs (Jan 2026), takaful list (Aug 2026)
Recorded market events
IRA-U authorised 144 players for 2026 incl. 19 non-life, 9 life, 3 micro, 1 takaful, 1 HMO, 2 reinsurers
Effect on directory: List reflects 2025 perpetual licences; 2026 takaful entrant not yet named in source
Governing legislation
- Insurance Act, Cap. 191 · Continues the authority and defines its powers
Section 9 continues IRA as a body corporate; section 11 sets its functions and independence; section 13 provides for its board. These are the current chapter's section numbers, which differ from the original 2017 Act.
Verification log
36 carriers, matching the IRA lists exactly: 19 non-life, 9 life, 4 micro, 1 takaful, 2 reinsurers, 1 HMO. Refreshed from the 2025 perpetual list on 9 Sep 2026. Renamed First Insurance Company to Mirai General Insurance (rebranded 2025 after Pride Global acquired it), Sanlam to Sanlam Allianz on both licences, and UAP Old Mutual to Old Mutual on both. Removed Jubilee Allianz General (merged into Sanlam General, IRA approval Aug 2025), Jubilee Health (amalgamated into Jubilee Life, IRA approved, policies transferred) and Grand Micro (absent from the Aug 2026 list). Added AAR General Insurance Uganda, Futureline Micro Insurance, Tamini General Insurance (the sole takaful operator) and CASE Med Insurance (the sole HMO). Ownership is not established for the last three, so they carry no parent. IRA's Jan 2026 press release counted 3 micro-insurers; the August company list carries 4
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/uganda.json
curl -s https://insurers.global/api/v1/countries/uganda/insurers/pages/1.json- MCP: connect
https://insurers.global/mcpand callget_country_summarywith{ "country": "uganda" }, 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.