George Alagiah, one of many BBC’s longest-serving and most revered journalists, has died at 67, nine years after being diagnosed with cancer.
Alagiah gained awards for stories on the famine and battle in Somalia within the early Nineteen Nineties, and was nominated for a Bafta in 1994 for overlaying Saddam Hussein’s genocidal marketing campaign in opposition to the Kurds of northern Iraq.
He was additionally named Amnesty Worldwide’s journalist of the yr in 1994, for reporting on the civil battle in Burundi, and was the primary BBC journalist to report on the genocide in Rwanda.
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