Paul Murungi is a Ugandan Business Journalist with extensive financial journalism training from institutions in South Africa, London (UK), Ghana, Tanzania, and Uganda. His coverage focuses on groundbreaking stories across the East African region with a focus on ICT, Energy, Oil and Gas, Mining, Companies, Capital and Financial markets, and the General Economy.
His body of work has contributed to policy change in private and public companies.
Paul has so far won five continental awards at the Sanlam Group Awards for Excellence in Financial Journalism in Johannesburg, South Africa, and several Uganda national journalism awards for his articles on business and technology at the ACME Awards.
The East African Development Bank (EADB) has issued a detailed statement defending its decision to auction a Nairobi property belonging to Kenyan borrower Dari Limited, saying the sale followed years…
In a transaction set to reshape Uganda’s banking landscape, Absa Bank Uganda signed an agreement in October last year to acquire the Wealth and Retail Banking (WRB) business of Standard…
Pearl Bank, whose purpose is to foster prosperity for Ugandans, has donated water tanks and assorted food items to the Islamic University in Uganda (IUIU) in celebration of Ramadan and…
Nearly three decades after a commercial farming project was halted by government officials and residents in eastern Uganda, the High Court in Jinja has ruled that government and several individuals…
As the global insurance giants Sanlam and Allianz deepen their partnership across Africa, Uganda’s life insurance sector is entering a new phase of strategic alignment, capital strength and governance discipline. …
The bancassurance market is increasingly consolidating around a small group of dominant lenders, with Stanbic, Absa and Centenary emerging as the leading distributors of insurance through banking channels. The Insurance…
The insurance industry closed the fourth quarter of 2025 with gross written premiums of UGX 2.02 trillion, representing a 14.8% growth from UGX 1.76 trillion in the same period of…
Doreen Kyomugisha leads the finance function at SanlamAllianz General Insurance Uganda as Chief Financial Officer, helping steer one of the country’s most significant insurance integrations following the merger between Sanlam…
Alexander Mukasa leads SanlamAllianz Life Insurance Uganda as Chief Executive Officer, guiding the life insurance arm of Africa’s largest non-banking financial services partnership at a pivotal moment for Uganda’s insurance…
Tanzanian billionaire businessman Rostam Abdulrasul Azizi is set to become the new majority shareholder of Nation Media Group (NMG) after agreeing to acquire the controlling stake of 54.08% previously held…
