Nancy Kacungira | |
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| Born | 1986 (age 38–39) |
| Nationality | Ugandan |
| Occupation(s) | Journalist,news anchor |
| Employer | BBC |
| Known for | Co-founder ofBlu Flamingo |
| Notable work | Focus on Africa (TV programme) World News Today with Nancy Kacungira In Business Africa The Daily Global with Nancy Kacungira |
| Father | Clifford Kacungira |
| Relatives | Seanice Lojede (sister) |
| Awards | 2015BBC World News Komla Dumor Award |
| Website | kacungira |
Nancy Kacungira (born 1986)[1] is a Ugandan presenter and reporter atBBC News.[2] She presentedFocus on Africa from 2017 to January 2019andWorld Business Report onBBC World News.
After a stint presentingWorld News Today in August 2018, she became the main presenter at 7 pm weekdays and 9 pm weekends from September 2019 when she is not on assignment, as part of here 19:00–01:00GMT/BST, onBBC Four,BBC News Channel andBBC World News, and has presentedIn Business Africa since January 2019, a programme she presented alongside Ashionye Ogene. She also is a relief presenter forThe Briefing at 05:00GMT onBBC One,BBC News Channel andBBC World News. In 2022 she also started presenting onBBC World ServiceOutside Source, but she never presented the TV version.[3]
At the beginning of June 2020, she began presenting most of the evening output two in three weekends, on both BBC News Channel and BBC World News. Including the second half ofBBC News at Ten on Friday and Saturday, alternative Sundays. Since April 2023 main presenters and correspondents for the new merged BBC News Channel covering for its chief presenters, presenting mainly evening programmes The World Today with Nancy Kacungira, the successor to World News Today, which was rebranded from The Daily Global while she was on maternity leave,The Context, UK-opt outs,BBC News at One and theBBC Weekend News.
Kacungira began as a radio presenter while still at university, working her way up from intern to Deputy Program Director by the time she received her first class degree. She then earned her Master of Arts degree in Communication Studies from the University of Leeds, where she graduated with distinction.[4]
Kacungira began her media career as a radio presenter at Power FM, a Christian radio station inKampala, Uganda. In 2010 Kacungira together with her older sisterSeanice Kacungira co-founded Blu Flamingo; a digital media management company. She moved from radio to TV atNTV Uganda as a newsreader from 2012 to 2013, after which she moved to Kenya to work forKTN News Kenya as a social media editor in late 2013.
While still at KTN News Kenya in 2015, Kacungira applied for theKomla Dumor Award, which she won and went to the BBC for three months' training.[5] She then returned to KTN News Kenya but was later hired by the BBC where she presentedFocus on Africa, but later became the main presenter ofWorld News Today and In Business Africa, a main presenter at weekends andcorrespondent both BBC News Channel and BBC World News.
In 2016, Kacungira was one of the two moderators at the Ugandan presidential debate with another Ugandan BBC presenterAlan Kasujja.[6]
Following the merger of BBC World News and BBC News in April 2023, Kacungria became one of the main presenters and correspondents for the new channel covering for its chief presenters, presenting mainly evening programmes The Daily Global with Nancy Kacungira,The Context, UK-opt outs and theBBC Weekend News. She was also the presenter and correspondent coveringPrince Harry, Duke of Sussex phone hacking case againstMirror Group Newspapers (MGN) and political events at Westminster including Privileges Committee publicization of a report, which concluded thatBoris Johnson lied to and deliberately misled the House of Commons overPartygate, misled the Committee themselves during the hearing, and acted in contempt of the Committee itself through a "campaign of abuse and intimidation".[736]
Kacungira announced via Instagram that she had got married in January 2023.[8] A year later she announced via the same platform that she had given birth to a baby boy in December.[9]
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| Preceded by | Main Presenter ofWorld News Today 2018–present | Succeeded by TBA |