Yousra Elbagir

Yousra Elbagir

Africa correspondent

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Biography

Yousra Elbagir is Africa correspondent, covering major events and stories from across the continent.

She has reported on social, cultural and political movements worldwide. Most notably, the 2019 youth-led revolution in Sudan and the global reckoning of Black Lives Matter in Europe and South America in 2020.

Before joining Sky News, Yousra was a foreign news reporter for Channel 4 News and international correspondent for Vice News Tonight on HBO, making documentary-style news films.

Articles by Yousra Elbagir

Eyewitness

Volunteer medics hit by tear gas as protesters call for Kenya president to quit

Eyewitness

'Kenya has changed forever' - inside first funeral after deadly protests

Eyewitness

Kenyans see fellow protesters killed in front of them but they choose to keep fighting

Analysis

Protesters in Kenya are tired of double standards, and it will take more than bullets to stand them down

Eyewitness

'We don't know how things are going to turn out': Generations divided as South Africa votes

Eyewitness

'Roar, young lions, roar': South Africa president's rallying call for election amid growing discontent

Migrants await next opportunity after 'impossible' US route shuts

Eyewitness

Demand higher than ever for 'deadliest and busiest migrant route in the world'

Civilians trapped as UN warns of possible imminent attack on city by Sudanese paramilitary forces

Why is the death toll in one of the world's most brutal conflicts unknown?

Lions traumatised by war find sanctuary - but for some there is no bite or fight left

Eyewitness

'They are struggling in every way': The orphaned and disabled children forced to flee fighting in Sudan

Destruction of Sudan's most iconic street market is a massacre of memory and communal life

Eyewitness

Scramble to contain a cholera crisis in Zambia

Eyewitness

Inside the Rwanda refugee camp where people fled as rebel groups ravaged their homeland

'No one feels our pain': Terrorised civilians feel forgotten as their country ripped apart by war

Half a million fled to a safe haven in Sudan - now the war is at their door again

Eyewitness

'Come as a guest, leave as a friend': What is life like for asylum seekers in Rwanda?

Harrowing details of sieges emerge as thousands flee after army bases in Sudan captured

Eyewitness

Parents hold their kids tight as disaster survivors left with nightmares