Nima Elbagir is a Sudanese journalist from Khartoum currently working as a Senior International Correspondent since December 2014.

Nima Elbagir Biography

Elbagir is a Sudanese journalist from Khartoum currently working as a Senior International Correspondent since December 2014. In addition, he works as an International Correspondent based in London since February 2011.

She began her CNN career as a Johannesburg-based correspondent in February 2011, before relocating to the Nairobi bureau and then London.

Elbagir won the prestigious 2019 Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University Award in the Investigative category for her reporting on human rights abuses, with the jurors praising her “fearless reporting across Africa, from a modern-day slave market in Libya, to child labor in Congo, and a smuggler’s network in Nigeria documented rarely seen exploitation and corruption.”

Elbagir was chosen a laureate of the 2018 Courage in Journalism Award by the International Women’s Media Foundation, joining an elite group of female journalists who have been acknowledged for reporting from some of the world’s most dangerous locations. Her work also earned her the Excellence in International Reporting Award from the International Center for Journalists in 2018.

Elbagir came to Yemen last year to pursue her study on the use and transfer of American-made weapons from the Saudi-led coalition to al Qaeda-linked forces and other hardline militias in Yemen. It came after her article in August 2018 confirming that the bomb that murdered 40 children on a school bus in Yemen was constructed in the United States.

Elbagir examined the exploitation of child labor in cobalt mines in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2018, following which Mercedes-parent Benz’s company, Daimler, launched an audit of the company’s whole supply chain. She also covered the story of Noura Hussein, a Sudanese teen who was sentenced to death for murdering her rapist husband. Following CNN’s exclusive coverage of Hussein’s first-hand account, a Sudanese court overturned her death sentence after hearing Hussein’s side of the story.

Elbagir went to Libya with producer Raja Razek and photojournalist Alex Platt in the fall of 2017 to look into reports of African migrants being sold at slave auctions. Elbagir and Razek entered a property outside of Tripoli with hidden cameras and observed a dozen African refugees being auctioned off in less than 10 minutes, some for as low as $400. In June 2018, the United Nations Security Council issued unprecedented UN sanctions on six men identified as traffickers by the UN Libya Sanctions Committee.

Elbagir’s shocking report from Libya sparked a global outcry, earning him a 2018 George Polk Award in the Foreign Television Reporting category, the Royal Television Society (RTS) Award for Scoop of the Year, a Golden Nymph Award in the Best TV News Item category at the Monte Carlo TV Festival, the Television Trophy at the Bayeux Calvados-Normandy Awards, and two Association for International Broadcasting (AIB) Awards in the Impact and Daily Journalism – Viral

Elbagir was selected as the RTS 2016 Specialist Journalist of the Year after her investigations on crimes against women and children, including the sale of displaced Nigerian children to Boko Haram and the mutilation of British Somali girls by FGM practitioners in Nairobi.

Elbagir reported on the Ebola outbreak that ravaged West Africa in 2014, venturing into Liberia’s quarantine zones and documenting the disease’s impact across both urban and rural areas at the great personal danger. She was also the first international journalist to report from Chibok, a northern Nigerian village where the terrorist group Boko Haram abducted over 250 schoolgirls in 2014. She was able to interview two young girls who had managed to flee and explained the horror of being kidnapped as well as their current terror. Her ongoing coverage of the missing schoolgirls helped CNN win the Peabody Award in 2015. Elbagir and producer Stephanie Busari secured a ‘proof of life’ video for some of the kidnapped girls over two years after their kidnapping.

Elbagir also interviewed Ibrahim’s estranged family and her terrified husband for many exclusive reports on the story of Yehya Ibrahim, a Sundanese lady sentenced to death for committing apostasy. Her reporting on this topic drew international attention to Ibrahim’s situation, helping to build political pressure on the Sudanese government to grant her a respite.

She also oversaw CNN’s coverage of the Central African Republic’s growing bloodshed, accompanying French troops as they attempted to mediate peace between entrenched Muslim and Christian combatants.

She was allowed an exclusive phone interview with Safia Gadhafi, the former Libyan leader’s wife, in Tripoli, while reporting from Somalia during the Horn of Africa famine. Following the Egyptian revolution, Elbagir spoke with Justice Minister Mohamed Abdelaziz al-Juindy, who advocated for the death penalty to be applied to former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.

She also reported from South Sudan, which was celebrating its independence.

Elbagir and her team were honored in 2019 for their year-long investigation into Father Luk Delft: The Case of the Predator Priest, a pedophile priest who was sent to work for an aid organization in Africa, helping vulnerable families, despite the fact that his Catholic order knew he had been convicted of abusing children in Europe years before.

She covered the rising violence against women in the Congo as a freelancer for CNN, as well as Nigeria’s 50th anniversary of independence, the South Sudanese Referendum, and CNN’s coverage of the Hajj.

Elbagir, who was born in Sudan, worked for Channel 4 in the United Kingdom for several years before joining CNN. She freelanced from Kabul for Channel 4 News, reported for the “Unreported World” documentary strand, and both reported and presented for Channel 4 News and More4 News.

Elbagir’s exclusives during this time included the first interview with an Aegis security company whistleblower on the Iraq “Trophy Videos” (2005); interviewing Jacob Zuma in the run-up to his rape trial (2006); being the only Western journalist reporting from Mogadishu during the US bombing of Somalia (2007), and broadcasting the first televised evidence of Iranian weaponry smuggled to the Taliban (2009).

Elbagir began her journalism career as a stringer for Reuters in Sudan in 2002, where she was one of the first to bring the film from inside Darfur; she subsequently contributed to The Economist, the Financial Times, and Radio France International. She stayed with Reuters as a Graduate Trainee in London until 2005.

Nima Elbagir Age

Elbagir was born in July 1978 in Khartoum, Sudan.

Nima Elbagir Family

She was born to her loving and caring parents Amed Abdullar Elbagir, her father who was a journalist even before her birth. Her mother, Ibtisam Affan and was the first publisher in Sudan. In addition, she has a younger sister named Yousra Elbagir.

At the age of three, the family moves to the United States, and later when she was eight they move back to Sudan. Later at the age of six, they moved to the United Kingdom.

Nima Elbagir Husband

Currently, she is in marriage with her loving and caring husband, Mark Brit. However, he shares no more information in relation to her relationship with her husband. This includes information in regards, how, where, and when they met. An update of this information will be out when available.

Nima Elbagir Children

The duo counts it a blessing to have a beautiful child named Ali. However, she shares no more information in relation to her child.

Nima Elbagir Height

She is approximately 5 feet 8 inches tall which is about 1.77 meters.

Nima Elbagir Salary

She earns an estimated annual salary ranging between $10,000 to $100,000.

Nima Elbagir Net Worth

Elbagir has an estimated net worth of between $150,000-$2,000,000.

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