State owned insurer SONAS has been granted a de facto monopoly over motor insurance.
The Insurance Regulatory and Control Authority (ARCA) of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has issued a reminder of a "ban on direct insurance abroad" to anyone living on Congolese soil.
The Democratic Republic of Congo has granted an insurance licence to a subsidiary of Hong-Kong-listed Frontier Services Group (FSG), a security and logistics company run by Mr Erik Prince, the founder of private security firm Blackwater.