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    Steady Vision, Bold Growth: Peter Makhanu’s Four-Decade Insurance Journey and the Rise of Liberty Uganda

    CEO East Africa MagazineThe Big StoryMarch 2, 2026March 2, 2026

    By Sharon Kyatusimiire After more than four decades in insurance, a journey that began in 1984, Peter Makhanu speaks with the composure of a man who has seen cycles, crises,…

    Standard Bank’s Sim Tshabalala, Absa Group’s Kenny Fihla, MTN Group CEO Ralph Mupita, SanlamAllianz’s Heinie Werth, Nedbank Group’s Jason Quinn, and Old Mutual’s Jurie Strydom represent more than individual corporate leaders. Collectively, they sit at the helm of institutions controlling hundreds of billions of dollars in assets, deposits, premiums, and market capitalisation across Africa. Their strategic decisions influence capital flows, credit creation, insurance penetration, and digital finance ecosystems across multiple markets. As they pivot attention toward East Africa, they are not merely expanding footprints; they are reshaping regional banking, telecom, insurance, and investment architecture for the next phase of continental growth.

    South Africa’s capital is moving north-east, and East Africa is increasingly the preferred landing strip

    The CEO Magazine TeamThe Big StoryFebruary 13, 2026February 27, 2026

    South African capital, long dominant in Southern Africa and deeply embedded across the continent, is now moving decisively north-east. Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, and Rwanda are no longer peripheral growth outposts….

    Uganda’s insurance industry in 2025: A year of growth, consolidation, and reckoning

    Paul MurungiBanking & Financial ServicesThe Big StoryDecember 30, 2025February 28, 2026

    There are years when an industry grows quietly, and then there are years when it changes character. For Uganda’s insurance industry, 2025 was unmistakably a change of character. Viewed from…

    A photo collage of Old Mutual managing director Stephen Chikovore and SanlamAllianz General Insurance chief executive officer Ruth Namuli. SanlamAllianz’s licensed merger has propelled it to Uganda’s second-largest general insurer, capturing 19.8% market share and closing within 1.4 points of Old Mutual in Q3 2025 after years of dominance.

    SanlamAllianz Officially Becomes Uganda’s Second-Largest General Insurer as Market Gap with Old Mutual Narrows Sharply

    Muhereza KyamuteteraThe Big StoryDecember 3, 2025December 3, 2025

    The newly merged SanlamAllianz Uganda has officially become the country’s second-largest general insurer. Market performance report for the 2025 third quarter by Insurance Regulatory Authority (IRA) shows that the merged…

    Rotary Club of Bulindo Ready to Lead National Conversation on Financial Literacy

    Paul MurungiCompany NewsThe Big StoryOctober 21, 2025October 28, 2025

    “I was fired with almost no savings, fired with a salary loan, fired with retired parents depending on me, fired with a young daughter in school, and fired with one…

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