All Eyes on Don Wanyama: Inside Vision Group’s Hardest Year – Will his Turnaround Strategy Deliver in 2026? Don Wanyama’s tenure at Vision Group has reached a defining moment. After years of losses, rising costs, and structural pressure on traditional media, the country’s largest publisher is attempting a fragile turnaround under intense public scrutiny. A recent capital injection from the government has bought time and funded critical investments, but it has also raised expectations and sharpened questions around performance, independence, and accountability. With the Auditor General now confirming the depth of Vision Group’s financial strain, Wanyama enters 2026 tasked with an unforgiving challenge: restoring profitability fast enough to justify public capital, stabilising the business, and protecting the credibility on which the institution ultimately depends.

Jeff WintersFebruary 5, 2026February 5, 2026

Entering 2026, Don Wanyama leads Vision Group through losses, state scrutiny and a fragile turnaround, tasked with restoring profitability, credibility and independence at Uganda’s most influential media house today nationwide.

As Don Wanyama walks into 2026, he does so with more than a balance sheet to defend. He carries the weight of a national institution under financial strain, the expectations of a shareholder that is also the State, and the scrutiny of an Auditor General who has now put Vision Group’s challenges squarely on the public record. As Group CEO of New Vision Printing and Publishing Company, Wanyama leads one of Uganda’s most influential media houses at a moment when performance, credibility, and survival intersect. The question is no longer whether Vision Group understands its problems, but whether it can…

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