Ethiopia · East Africa
Lion Insurance Co
Profile highlights
4 badgesComposite
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Domestic private
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Recorded as independent
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Listed in Africa
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Registered as Lion Insurance Company S.C.
Official sources
This directory holds no official website for Lion Insurance Co: the NBE register does not publish one and no sourced profile has been accepted. The register is the authoritative record of who is licensed.
Business profile
Understanding Lion Insurance Co
Sources checked
Business described in the annual report
Lion’s 2023/24 annual report identifies engineering, fire, liability, marine, motor, personal accident and pecuniary contracts among its general business. It also records entry into life insurance during the year ended June 2024 and identifies its Addis Ababa head office.
This is a dated company report; current product availability and detailed terms were not independently verified.
About composite business
The composite category combines life and non-life business within one insurer. Individual products can have different policy terms, service teams and claims requirements.
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Explore the Ethiopia insurance market or other entries in this category.
Questions to ask about cover
- Which department handles the product I need?
- What does the policy cover and exclude?
- Which documents and notification deadlines apply to a claim?
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- Class of business
- CompositeLicensed to write both life and non-life business under one entity.
- Parent / group
- Independent
- Ownership
- Domestic privateOwned by domestic private shareholders with no cross-border parent.
- Regulator
- National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE)nbe.gov.et
- Local currency
- ETB
- Source basis
- National Bank of Ethiopia, Financial Institutions > Insurers directory (WordPress 'insurers' records, 18 entities, retrieved 22 Sep 2026), cross-checked against NBE Annual Report 2024/25 Table 4.6 'Branch Network & Capital of Insurance Companies as at June 30, 2025' (18 companies)
- Country verification
- Partially verified - NBE lists the 18 direct insurers (directory entries last edited Oct-Dec 2023, confirmed by the NBE Annual Report 2024/25 as at 30 June 2025); the reinsurer Ethiopian Re is not on either list · National Bank of Ethiopia, Financial Institutions > Insurers directory (WordPress 'insurers' records, 18 entities, retrieved 22 Sep 2026), cross-checked against NBE Annual Report 2024/25 Table 4.6 'Branch Network & Capital of Insurance Companies as at June 30, 2025' (18 companies)
- Identifiers
- slug ethiopia-lion-insurance-co · row 404/api/v1/insurers/ethiopia-lion-insurance-co.json