Education
She was educated in Sudan and England. She has a Bachelor of Science in Philosophy from The London School of Economics.
She was educated in Sudan and England. She has a Bachelor of Science in Philosophy from The London School of Economics.
Elbagir joined Cable News Network as a London-based international correspondent. In 2008, she was shortlisted for Young Journalist of the Year at the Royal Television Society Awards. As early as 2006, she was considered to be a rising reporting talent
She is fluent in Arabic and English.
Elbagir began her journalism career with Reuters in December 2002 reporting for them from Sudan, covering the simmering conflict in the country"s Darfur region.
She moved into broadcast journalism in 2005 joining the launch of More4 News where her exclusives included exposing rape allegations against the African Union in Darfur, getting the first interview with the Aegis security company whistleblower on the Iraq "Trophy Videos", interviewing Jacob Zuma in the run-up to his recent rape trial and being the only Western journalist reporting from Mogadishu during the United States bombing of Somalia in January 2007
In her first documentary with Unreported World "Meet the Janjaweed" she gained unprecedented access to Mohammed Hamdan Dogolo, aka "Hemeti", one of the main Arab Janjaweed Commanders at the heart of the fighting in Darfur. Elbagir and her director Andrew Carter filmed the fighters" Sudanese Army Idaho cards and Chinese manufactured weaponry - broadcasting the first documentary evidence* of the Sudanese government"s direct involvement with the Janjaweed and the role China"s arms sales to Darfur are playing in the conflict.
(*The British Broadcasting Corporation"s Newsnight broadcast the first Janjaweed admission of Sudanese Government involvement - an interview with a defector on 17 October 2006 The defector in that instance did not offer Sudanese Army Idaho however).
