The award-winning journalist was a respected fixture on British TV news for more than three decades.
George Alagiah, one of the BBC's longest-serving and most respected journalists, has died at 67, nine years after being diagnosed with cancer.
Alagiah won awards for reports on the famine and war in Somalia in the early 1990s, and was nominated for a Bafta in 1994 for covering Saddam Hussein's genocidal campaign against the Kurds of northern Iraq. The family initially prospered there but Alagiah's parents decided to educate their children in England when a coup soured the atmosphere in Ghana. At the age of 11, his father dropped him off at boarding school in Portsmouth; they both had to hold back the tears.
But, in some ways, his school in England - St John's College - was a closed and unreal society, which sealed him off from the huge social changes going on outside its walls. The anti-immigrant sentiment in many parts of the country was something that largely passed him by.Alagiah reporting on Rwandan refugees in the Democratic Republic of Congo, then known as Zaire, in 1994
It was often a depressing experience. He interviewed child soldiers in Liberia, victims of mass rape in Uganda and witnessed hunger and disease almost everywhere. Moving to news presenting, he fronted the BBC One O'Clock News, Nine O'Clock News and BBC Four News, before being made one of the main presenters of the Six O'Clock News in 2003.
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