Yousra Elbagir

Yousra Elbagir is a Sudanese–British TV journalist and writer. She is the Africa correspondent for UK news broadcaster Sky News.

Journalism Elbagir started her journalistic experience by participating in student publications during her studies at St Andrews.

Elbagir returned to Sudan in 2015 after her studies to train as a journalist in the field.

Elbagir started to become well known after launching the #SudanUnderSanctions online media campaign in which Sudanese women and men discussed the effects of the trade sanctions against Sudan.

In 2019, Elbagir reported on the Sudanese Revolution while working for Channel 4. She criticised the beginning steps of the Sudanese institutional transition to democracy, stating, "For the [first] tangible political progress of decades to exclude women is ridiculous. ... Women were the reason that the mass pro-democracy sit-in was able to continue for nearly two months. They ran make-shift clinics, fed fasting protesters daily during Ramadan, they spent the night at check points searching female protesters."

In 2022, Elbagir joined Sky News as its Africa correspondent. In 2026, she was named Network Television Journalist of the Year at the Royal Television Society awards for her work as Africa correspondent for Sky News, most notably for her ground-breaking coverage of the war in her home country Sudan.