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Fergus Nicoll began his career with the BBC in 1988 with the Africa Service. There he won a Sony Award for "Best Breakfast Show" in 1991. Pursuing his interest in Sudan, Libya and Egypt, he moved to the BBC's Cairo Bureau in 1992. Moving back to BBC World TV and the short-lived BBC Arabic TV channel, he became a World Affairs correspondent, filing on the rainforests of Cameroon, the fireworks of the Hong Kong handover, hostage-rescues in Yemen and refugee resettlement in Sarajevo. Addicted to the sunshine, powerful coffee and shisha water-pipes of North Africa and the Middle East, he has returned repeatedly to those areas. In 2004, he published a biography of the Mahdi of Sudan and has started work on a new work, the life of Shah Jahan. Miscellaneous trivia: Fergus has a Sanskrit degree from Oxford University and plays his drums left-handed. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Fergus meets Kuwaiti women campaigning for the vote
George Arney