Yousra Elbagir - All Eyes on Sudan: A Foreign Correspondent Tells the Stories of A Country Living Through The Horror of War

Yousra Elbagir has not stopped telling the stories of Sudan and the Sudanese people.

Over the last decade Elbagir has established herself as one of the most respected and celebrated foreign correspondents of her generation. The Sudanese- British Sky News Africa journalist has told riveting human centred stories across the African continent and around world, often from the frontlines of the major conflicts of our time. Most famously she has been one of the few journalists to consistently get access to Sudan, a country close to her heart. Early on in her career Elbagir distinguished herself with the quality of her reporting. In 2016, she was awarded the Thomson & Foreign Press Association Young Journalist Award. Yousra Elbagir comes from a storied family of journalists. She is part of the 3rd generation of journalism practitioners. Her older sister Neema is CNN’s Chief International Investigative correspondent. Her father, Ahmed Abdullah Elbagir, was a pioneering journalist who was the publisher of the Sudanese newspaper El Khartoum. Her mother, Ibtisam Affan, was the first female publisher in Sudan. Yousra Elbagir was recently in Ottawa to deliver the prestigious Peter Stursberg Foreign Correspondents lecture sponsored by the School of Journalism and Communication at Carleton University.