George Alagiah, one of many BBC’s longest-serving and most revered journalists, has died at 67, 9 years after being identified with most cancers.
Alagiah gained awards for studies on the famine and battle in Somalia within the early Nineteen Nineties, and was nominated for a Bafta in 1994 for protecting Saddam Hussein’s genocidal marketing campaign towards the Kurds of northern Iraq.
He was additionally named Amnesty Worldwide’s journalist of the 12 months 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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