Yousra Elbagir

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Africa correspondent at Sky News

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Famous chimpanzee sanctuary faces existential threat from illegal land grab

3 weeks ago | news.sky.com | Yousra Elbagir

There is a distinct moment when the tranquillity of the Tacugama Chimpanzee Sanctuary envelops our car as we drive higher up the mountain. The buzz of Freetown gives way to the hushed calm of this pocket of pristine rainforest reserved for critically endangered western chimpanzees rescued from across Sierra Leone. The quiet is necessary. These bright primates - closest related to humans in the animal kingdom - are easily disturbed and the ones living in Tacugama are particularly sensitive.
Peaceful sanctuary for traumatised chimps threatened by illegal human land grab

3 weeks ago | msn.com | Yousra Elbagir

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White South African farmer elated Donald Trump grilled his president

1 month ago | news.sky.com | Yousra Elbagir

"It was a whipping!" says Wannie Scribante, a small-scale white farmer in South Africa's North West province. This is the second time we visit Wannie's small farm since March to ask him about the White House.
Sudan's war is in a dangerous new phase - can its new prime minister provide a steer for civilians?

1 month ago | news.sky.com | Yousra Elbagir

After the trumpet horns of military victory sounded off in Sudan's capital Khartoum, the deadly buzz of Rapid Support Forces (RSF) drones followed. The war has entered a dangerous aerial phase with any illusions of normalcy shattered by multi-day drone attacks on the wartime administrative centre Port Sudan and sanctuary cities across the northeast.
Even as a war-hardened reporter, seeing your home defiled is horrific

1 month ago | thetimes.com | Yousra Elbagir
Sudan man separated from his family by war and wounded by a stray bullet, returns home after two years

1 month ago | news.sky.com | Yousra Elbagir

Munzir is hunched over in a chair when we get to the office of a displacement camp for the undocumented in Sudan's capital. He looks defeated and sullen. His leg is wrapped in gauze and his crutches are leaning against the wall by the side of the chair. Two months ago, a stray bullet hit his leg in army-held territory in Omdurman and he was taken to the largest remaining functioning hospital in the area, Al Nao Hospital.
State of panic growing in Sudan's wartime capital amid drone strikes

1 month ago | news.sky.com | Yousra Elbagir

Dark clouds of smoke have been rising over Sudan's wartime capital Port Sudan for two consecutive days. A state of panic is building in the administrative centre that is home to tens of thousands of people seeking safety during two years of war between Sudan's army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
Drone attacks are intensifying in Sudan - hitting schools and camps homing the displaced

1 month ago | news.sky.com | Yousra Elbagir |Sam Doak

The smell of explosives is still in the air when we arrive. Hours before, a displacement camp in Atbara housing families who fled the war in Sudan's capital Khartoum was hit by two drone strikes in a four-pronged attack. The first bomb on 25 April burned donated tents and killed the children in them. The second hit a school serving as a shelter for the spillover of homeless families.
Ask our presenters and correspondents anything

1 month ago | news.sky.com | Mark Stone |Martha Kelner |Sophy Ridge |Yousra Elbagir

Hi Measle77, thank you for the question. First, for those who haven't seen it, here's the interview you're referring to... There are some pieces of journalism that you labour over for weeks and months that, for whatever reason, don't cut through. Then there are the unplanned moments which capture the zeitgeist and my run-in with Marjorie Taylor Greene was one of those. I can't remember another episode in my career which has been so widely talked about.
Ransacked and looted: What I found in my family home destroyed by militiamen

1 month ago | news.sky.com | Yousra Elbagir

The biggest city in the Sahel has been ransacked and left in ruins. War erupted in Sudan's capital Khartoum in April 2023 and sent millions searching for safety. The city was quickly captured by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) after a power struggle with the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) for total control. At least 61,000 people were killed from the fighting and siege conditions in Khartoum state alone. Thousands more were maimed and many remain missing.

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