Nima Elbagir is CNN's multi-award winning Chief International Investigative Correspondent.
She joined CNN in 2011 as a Johannesburg-based correspondent before moving to the network's Nairobi bureau and later London, where she is currently based.
Nima was named the 2020 RTS Television Journalist of the Year and received the prestigious 2019 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award in the Investigative category for her reporting on human rights abuses. Nima’s reporting on human rights abuses have been directly and extensively referenced by lawmakers.
Before joining CNN, Sudanese-born Nima worked in various capacities for the UK's Channel 4 for a number of years starting in 2005: She freelanced from Kabul for Channel 4 News; reported for the Unreported World documentary strand; and both reported and presented for Channel 4 News and More4 News.
Nima began her journalism career as a stringer with Reuters in 2002 reporting from Sudan, and one of the first to provide footage from inside Darfur; while also filing material for the Economist, the FT and Radio France International. She stayed on with Reuters as a London-based Graduate Trainee through to 2005
