The African insurers within the CIMA region (inter-african conference of insurance markets), should not be affected by the international financial crisis. They seem to be indeed protected by the CIMA Code, the legal plan which regulates in a strict way insurance companies' investments since 1992. The premiums collected from the insured are reinvested in the CIMA space.
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