Yousra Elbagir
Yousra Elbagir | |
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يسرا الباقر  | |
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| Born | c. 1992 |
| Education | University of St Andrews, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism |
| Occupation | Journalist |
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Yousra Elbagir is a Sudanese–British TV journalist and writer. She is the Africa correspondent for UK news broadcaster Sky News.[1][2][3][4]
Early years and education
[edit]Elbagir was born in Khartoum to a Sudanese journalist and politician father, and to a publisher and business person mother. Her mother is known to be the first female publisher in Sudan. She grew up in the United Kingdom until she was 8 years old, when her family moved to Sudan. She moved back to London at the age of 16 and there, she acquired her A levels and graduated from the University of St Andrews with honours after studying Social Anthropology.[5][6][7]
Journalism
[edit]Elbagir started her journalistic experience by participating in student publications during her studies at St Andrews.[8]
Elbagir returned to Sudan in 2015 after her studies to train as a journalist in the field.[4][7] As of 2016[update], she was working as a freelance reporter in Khartoum and was a producer for Elephant Media.[2] Her works have been featured on HBO, Channel 4, BBC Africa, BBC Radio 4, CNN, The Financial Times and The Guardian.[9][10][11][12][13]
Elbagir started to become well known after launching the #SudanUnderSanctions online media campaign in which Sudanese women and men discussed the effects of the trade sanctions against Sudan.[14]
In 2019, Elbagir reported on the Sudanese Revolution while working for Channel 4. She criticised the beginning steps of the Sudanese institutional transition to democracy, stating, "For the [first] tangible political progress of decades to exclude women is ridiculous. ... Women were the reason that the mass pro-democracy sit-in was able to continue for nearly two months. They ran make-shift clinics, fed fasting protesters daily during Ramadan, they spent the night at check points searching female protesters."[15]
In 2022,[16] Elbagir joined Sky News as its Africa correspondent.[1]
Personal life
[edit]Elbagir is the younger sister of the award-winning CNN journalist and TV correspondent Nima Elbagir.[8][7]
Awards
[edit]- In 2016, Elbagir was awarded the 2016 Thomson Foundation & Foreign Press Association Young Journalist Award for her in-depth reporting on the effects of United States sanctions against Sudan.[8][14][17][3]
- In 2017, she was included in OkayAfrica's 100 Women list.[18][8]
- In 2025, Yousra won the International Women in Media Foundation Courage in Journalism award for her work in dangerous conflict zones across Africa.[19]
- In 2026, she was named Network Television Journalist of the Year at the Royal Television Society awards for her work as Africa correspondent for Sky News, most notably for her ground-breaking coverage of the war in her home country Sudan. [20]
References
[edit]- 1 2 https://news.sky.com/author/yousra-elbagir-855
- 1 2 "Yousra Elbagir | The Guardian". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 18 February 2020. Retrieved 17 February 2020.
- 1 2 "Yousra Elbagir – Journalist shares her inspirations and role models". Change the Script. Archived from the original on 18 February 2020. Retrieved 17 February 2020.
- 1 2 "3 Female Reporters On Covering The News At A Time Of Global Crisis". British Vogue. Retrieved 18 February 2020.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link) - ↑ "Yousra Elbagir". John Noel. Archived from the original on 17 February 2020. Retrieved 17 February 2020.
- ↑ "Meet Yousra Elbagir". passerbuys. Archived from the original on 18 February 2020. Retrieved 17 February 2020.
- 1 2 3 admin (23 December 2019). "Change Maker: Yousra Elbagir". Design Exchange. Retrieved 18 February 2020.
- 1 2 3 4 "20 Young Sudanese Women You Should Know About". Ola Diab. 8 March 2018. Archived from the original on 16 June 2021. Retrieved 17 February 2020.
- ↑ "Big and beautiful?". BBC News. 20 July 2017. Retrieved 18 February 2020.
- ↑ "Yousra Elbagir". Channel 4 News. Retrieved 18 February 2020.
- ↑ Elbagir, Yousra. "Sudan opposition leader arrested after protest crackdown, party says". CNN. Retrieved 18 February 2020.
- ↑ Elbagir, Yousra (19 April 2019). "In Sudan, the seeds of change have truly been sowed". Financial Times. Retrieved 18 February 2020.
- ↑ Elbagir, Yousra (4 April 2016). "In Sudan, communities are finally seeing the value of educating girls | Yousra Elbagir". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 18 February 2020.
- 1 2 "Human Rights Foundation". Human Rights Foundation. Archived from the original on 18 February 2020. Retrieved 17 February 2020.
- ↑ "Sudan signs power-sharing deal as its former dictator goes to trial". Vox. 19 August 2019. Archived from the original on 19 August 2019. Retrieved 19 August 2019.
- ↑ https://x.com/YousraElbagir/status/1510874919919362050
- ↑ "Yousra Elbagir is Thomson Foundation's Young Journalist winner". Thomson Foundation. Retrieved 17 February 2020.
- ↑ "YOUSRA ELBAGIR". Okay Africa. 6 March 2017. Archived from the original on 18 February 2020. Retrieved 17 February 2020.
- ↑ Elbagir, Yousra. "Internation Women in Media Fund award". iwmf.org.
- ↑ Elbagir, Yousra. "Royal Television Society". rts.org.uk.