AGP Executive Report
Last update: 2 hours agoInsurance Growth Spotlight: Heirs Holdings says three units—Heirs Life Assurance (ranked 7th in Africa), Redtech (32nd) and Heirs General Insurance (41st)—made the Financial Times Africa’s Fastest-Growing Companies 2026 list, with triple-digit growth rates and a push into tech-enabled customer services. Clean Mobility Bottlenecks: At WAAS 2026 in Lagos, stakeholders blamed weak financing, policy inconsistency, scarce technicians, poor infrastructure and affordability for slow CNG and EV adoption across Nigeria and West Africa. Health Emergency: Africa CDC warns of a fresh Ebola outbreak in eastern DRC’s Ituri, citing suspected cases, lab-confirmed samples and the need for urgent cross-border coordination with Uganda and South Sudan. Vaccine Manufacturing Push: Gavi is set to propose AVMA+—$189m more—to unblock regulatory hurdles and create guaranteed demand for African-made vaccines. Digital Crime Fight: West Africa’s fraud networks were disrupted after 87 email addresses and 4 URLs helped identify nearly 50,000 fraudulent accounts and 5,000 fake sites via the Global Signal Exchange. Climate Finance Pressure: West and Central Africa urged faster, community-targeted climate funding as displacement from floods and droughts rises.
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