George Alagia, one of the BBC’s longest-serving and most respected journalists, has died aged 67, nine years after being diagnosed with cancer.
Alagia won awards for his reporting on famine and war in Somalia in the early 1990s and was nominated for a BAFTA in 1994 for his coverage of Saddam Hussein’s genocidal campaign against the Kurds of northern Iraq.
He was named Amnesty International’s Journalist of the Year in 1994 for his coverage of the civil war in Burundi and was the first BBC journalist to report on the genocide in Rwanda.
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