Nima Elbagir, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Nima Elbagir

British journalist

Date of Birth: 01-Jan-0001

Place of Birth: Khartoum, Sudan

Profession: journalist

Nationality: Sudan

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

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Nima Elbagir (Arabic: ???? ???????; born July 1978) is a Sudanese journalist and an award-winning international television correspondent. Elbagir joined CNN as a London-based international correspondent.
In 2008, she picked up two Foreign Press Association Awards - TV News Story of the Year and Broadcast Journalist of the Year (winner of winners).
She had been nominated for other awards including the Amnesty Award for Human Rights Journalism and the One World Broadcast Awards.
In 2008, she was shortlisted for Young Journalist of the Year at the Royal Television Society Awards and in 2016, the society named her Specialist Journalist of the Year.
Her work had taken her "to some of the darkest and most difficult places to report on in the past 12 months", said the citation, adding that Elbagir had "demonstrated great determination and bravery as well as deep humanity.
She highlighted the plight of young people moving between continents and had the language skills to follow their journey in a way that no-one else could achieve".
"Her fearless reports from Africa and the Middle East' meant that she was 'being compared to [CNN's] veteran Christiane Amanpour", wrote media commentator Maggie Brown in 27 February 2016's The Observer.