Watch: The extraordinary career of George Alagiah
George Alagiah, one of the BBC's oldest and most respected journalists, has died aged 67, nine years after being diagnosed with cancer.
Alagiah won awards for his reporting on the famine and the 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. >
And if you, or someone you know, has been affected by cancer, information and support is available on the BBC's Action Line page.
George Alagiah, one of the BBC's oldest and most respected journalists, has died aged 67, nine years after being diagnosed with cancer.
Alagiah won awards for his reporting on the famine and the 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. >
And if you, or someone you know, has been affected by cancer, information and support is available on the BBC's Action Line page.
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