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Nima Elbagir | Being a person of colour in journalism, slavery in Libya and a machete in the DRC

Media Tribe

English - August 05, 2020 08:11 - 27 minutes - 46.6 MB
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Nima Elbagir is a Sudanese born journalist and an award-winning international television correspondent. Nima was named the 2020 Royal Television Society 'Television Journalist of the Year' and recently received the prestigious 2019 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award in the Investigative category for her reporting on human rights abuses, with the jurors citing her "fearless reporting across Africa, from a modern-day slave market in Libya, to child labour in Congo, and a smuggler's network in Nigeria, documented rarely seen exploitation and corruption."

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