Despite a UGX 25 Billion Government Lifeline, Don Wanyama’s Vision Group Remains Deeply Troubled A UGX25b bailout bought Vision Group oxygen, not a cure. Losses narrowed and digital bets are budding, but costs, shrinking print, newsroom exits, and an unforgiving ad market still drag the state-backed giant. Don Wanyama’s real challenge is reinvention—fast—in Uganda’s rapidly fragmenting media economy, before reach can no longer pay.

Despite a UGX25 billion shot in the wallet by government, Vision Group, the state majority-owned media house (government owns 53.3%), is still fishing in troubled waters, the just-published Annual Report 2024/25 shows. The capital injection, structured as a preference share investment, was meant to stabilise the business, ease its liquidity pressures, and give the country’s largest multimedia company a fair shot at recovery. Yet even with the sizeable boost and a slate of new investments under CEO Don Wanyama, Vision Group continues to post losses and confront deep structural challenges. The report paints a picture of an organisation that has…