Nancy Kacungira | |
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| Born | 1986 (age 37–38) |
| Nationality | Ugandan |
| Occupation(s) | Journalist, news anchor |
| Employer | BBC |
| Known for | Co-founder of Blu 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 | 2015 BBC World News Komla Dumor Award |
| Website | kacungira |
Nancy Kacungira (born 1986)[1] is a Ugandan presenter and reporter at BBC News.[2] She presented Focus on Africa from 2017 to January 2019 and World Business Report on BBC World News.
After a stint presenting World 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, on BBC Four, BBC News Channel and BBC World News, and has presented In Business Africa since January 2019, a programme she presented alongside Ashionye Ogene. She also is a relief presenter for The Briefing at 05:00GMT on BBC One, BBC News Channel and BBC World News. In 2022 she also started presenting on BBC World Service Outside 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 of BBC 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 the BBC Weekend News.
- ^ Rom, Larmack Freddie (15 August 2017). "Ugandan born journalist Nancy Kacungira joins BBC". Campus Bee. Retrieved 8 May 2022.
- ^ Chacha, Gardy (18 January 2014). "Nancy Kacungira: The new face on KTN opens up about her life journey". standardmedia.co.ke. Retrieved 8 August 2017.
- ^ BBC News Fix.