Nima Elgabir

Nima Elgabir is an award-winning humanitarian journalist and, since 2011, a CNN senior correspondent. She previously worked for Channel 4 News where she reported for the “Unreported World” documentary strand. At immense personal risk she has uncovered human rights stories which have sent shockwaves across the world and brought about seismic change. 

Born in Sudan, she spent most of her childhood there until she and her family came to the UK in exile. Focusing much of her reporting on Africa, she told inews: “It’s really important to have someone like me because it takes away the excuses of ‘this is colonialism by another name’ – you don’t get to do that when the coverage is led by people from the region.” 

She is the winner of multiple awards including the 2020 Royal Television Society 'Television Journalist of the Year' as well as 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." 

Criminality uncovered by Elbagir has sent shockwaves across the world and includes many instances of undercover reporting such as her investigation into a Libyan slave market where she witnessed and documented African migrants being auctioned off for as little as $400. Her investigative work led to unprecedented UN sanctions against six men identified as traffickers and brought this appalling criminal activity to the world’s attention.