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Nima Elbagir was born in Khartoum, Sudan, in 1978. She is an International <a href="/biography/nima-elbagir">Correspondent</a> based in Nairobi for CNN. She is an award winning <a href="/biography/nima-elbagir">reporter</a> who had earlier served as freelance journalist for CNN covering breaking news events in regions like Afghanistan, Congo, and Sudan. She worked as freelance reporter from the African Bureau of CNN in Sudan.

Nima Elbagir moved with her family to United Kingdom when she was 3 years old, and she moved back to Sudan when she was 8 years-old. In 1992 she moved back once again to United Kingdom. Having received her instruction between Sudan and United Kingdom, she is fluent in Arabic and English. Nima Elbagir graduated from the “London School of Economics” with a Bachelor of Science in Philosophy. She had always aspired to become a journalist. Her father is a newspaper publisher in Sudan, he had been jailed before her birth, and her mother, Ibtisam Affan, is the first woman publisher in the history of Sudan. She was trained for her broadcasting career from her father’s newsroom.

Elbagir’s broadcasting career started when she joined Reuters in 2002. She reported from Sudan, covering the war of the torn Darfur region of the country. She also reported for Radio France International, FT, and Economist. She left Reuters in 2005, and she later joined “More4News”, where she reported on critical cases like the rape allegations against the Darfur African Union. She also did the first interview with the whistleblower in Aegis Security Company on the Trophy Videos in Iraq. In 2011 Nima Elbagir joined CNN as their international correspondent based in Johannesburg, South Africa, before moving to Nairobi, Kenya, and finally in London, United Kingdom.

In Nima Elbagir’s first documentary titled “Meet the Janjaweed”, she gained access to the unreported world, and interviewed Mohammed Hamdan Dogolo, also known as “<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamed_Hamdan_Dagalo">Hemeti</a>”, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamed_Hamdan_Dagalo">one</a> of the main Arab Janjaweed Commanders responsible for the war in Darfur. The documentary revealed the link between the Sudanese government and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janjaweed">Janjaweed</a> commanders, with China’s involvement, with the supplying of weapons facilitating the continuation of the war.

Nima Elbagir was the only reporter to be given permission to interview <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Zuma">Jacob Zuma</a>, the ANC <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Zuma">deputy president</a> before his trial in 2006 for rape. She was part of the panel of journalists led by BBC anchor Lyse Douchet during the launch of the stories collection, “No Woman’s Land” that dealt with stories and advice given by female war correspondents and published by the INSI-the International News Safety Institute.

Nima Elbagir has been honored in 2008 with two “Foreign Press Association” awards, as “TV News Story of the Year”, and as “Broadcast Journalist of the Year”. She was also nominated for the “Amnesty Award” that is given for Human Rights Journalism for her coverage of the 2007 US bombing in Somalia. She was the only western <a href="/biography/nima-elbagir">journalist</a> allowed to access the area. In 2016 she’s been named by the Royal Television Society as “Specialist Journalist of the Year” for her covering of the passage of migrants from the Nile Delta to Italy. In 2018 she won, with the producer Raja Razek, the “George Polk Award” for “Foreign Television Reporting” for uncovering a hidden modern-day slave auction of African refugees in Libya.

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Elbagir and Razek secretly recorded the events using two hidden cameras. They attended the auction pretending of being a Sudanese women looking for a lost loved one who might be held in a warehouse of humans to be sold or shipped away. "Is the auction ongoing?" she asked. The seller told her "the auction is over." She not only had the sale on video, she has proof that it was an auction. Elbagir said it was one time when being a female journalist is an advantage. "They are just not used to thinking of women as posing a threat," she said.

Nima Elbagir has travelled to some of the most dangerous areas in the world during her career, and she has a vast experience, background, and personal knowledge that aid in making her a unique and awesome reporter. She has an extensive knowledge in foreign affairs and her work always portrays insight and credibility that is matchless. In 2014, when the Ebola virus started to massively spread, she went to Africa to cover the news, despite she was clearly risking her life.

Her most important articles at CNN, accessible by browsing her CNN profile on internet, are the ones with title "People for sale: Full documentary", "After finding freedom, this former slave is now homeless and hungry", "Migrant returns home to brutal reality", "Smuggled by Nigeria's 'pushermen'", "Sudanese migrants tortured in Libya for ransom", "CNN team recounts uncovering slavery in Libya", "Protesters react to slave trade in Libya", "Migrants being sold as slaves", "ISIS' power is waning, but its child slave trade is still booming", "Inside the life of an ISIS child slave", "Kenya's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raila_Odinga">Raila Odinga</a> signals he could run for president again”, “<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raila_Odinga">Raila Odinga</a> would run for president again", "Gloria Allred: Weinstein 'a teaching moment'", "Lawyer hints at claims against other LA bigwigs", "The challenges of bringing ISIS to justice", "Historian: Catalan leader 'an extreme nationalis", "Catalonia: We want to talk, 'nobody' listening", "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ai_Weiwei">Ai Weiwei</a>: 'No excuse' to ignore refugees", "Former US Diplomat challenges Trump to back <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurds">Kurds</a>", "German MEP: Catalonia out of EU if it leaves Spain", "Independence vote complicates war on ISIS", "Iraqi Kurds cast their votes in historic referendum", and "Iraqi Kurds casting votes on independence".

Nima Elbagir is engaged to a British diplomat she met in Sudan and that who she has been dating from few years as a boyfriend. They should be getting married in a near future.

Nima Elbagir is active on social media, and she has more than 11k followers on Twitter.

Nima Elbagir earns a suitable amount of money by her profession and has a net worth of $2 million as of 2017. However, her current net worth is still undisclosed. As of 2017, her yearly salary is estimated to be $187,697.

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