CIMA is the central Insurance Supervisory Authority in Sub-Saharan French-speaking Africa. Currently, it comprises 14 Member States: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Cote d’Ivoire, Congo-Brazzaville, Gabon, Mali, Niger, Senegal, Togo, Equatorial Guinea and the Comoros Islands. Harmonization of the regulations of insurance has always been one of the major preoccupations of the authorities in charge of the supervision of financial services.

On 10 July 1992, the International Insurance Supervisory Conference (CICA) member countries signed a new treaty establishing an Inter-African Conference on Insurance Markets, CIMA, containing in its appendix a shared insurance code which became enforceable on 15 February 1995.

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