Imogen Anderson
@Imo_Anderson
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BBC News, Senior Producer. Currently covering South Asia. Previously World Affairs Producer, covering Defence / Security.
New Delhi, India
Joined January 2009
Reposting this as I love this description of Dad. He really was magical
Recent obituary of that grandee of Military History, the magical Dr Duncan Anderson, who taught at Sandhurst from 1987. He was the external examiner for my PhD.
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Incredibly proud to have been a part of BBC teams that won two News Emmy’s last week. Standing on the shoulders of many giants, and alongside brilliant colleagues @Imo_Anderson @AamirPeerzadaa @AakritiThapar @sanjayganguly @Mahfouzzubaide1
Congratulations to the @BBCNews World News Content team, who received two News & Documentary Emmy Awards: 🏆 Outstanding Continuing News Coverage: Short Form – Coverage of 'Myanmar's Civil War' 🏆 Outstanding Investigative News Coverage: Short Form – Investigation into ‘Europe’s
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@tw_reporter_org @thewire_in @nytimes @WhyNot_WaiNao @cnni @initiumnews @mongabay @TheEconomist @news_cts @malaysiakini 🏆 Video Reporting - Award for Excellence - Global group goes to @BBCNewsAsia! Heartbreaking lens into the lives of children in Afghanistan facing famine and death. A stark and powerful visual account, well done! #SOPAwards2025 🎥 https://t.co/8w5iMkKn9i
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A Brilliant achievement led by Andrew Harding and team, Jess Parker & team in Europe & Yogita Limaye’s team in South Asia.
The #NewsEmmys Award for Outstanding Investigative News Coverage – Short Form goes to Europe's Migration Crisis (@BBCWorld).
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As Russia intensifies assaults on the frontlines in Ukraine, and makes some of its most significant advances in months, our report from Donetsk region. @Imo_Anderson @sanjayganguly @vicechat @anastasiia_lev
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The BBC reports from Donetsk where swarms of fibre optic drones give Russia the edge as Ukraine defends towns behind the front line.
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‘I want to believe it could be the beginning of the end’ #Ukraine frontline soldiers eye Russia talks with cautious hope
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There is cautious optimism in eastern Ukraine as talks are set to take place in Istanbul.
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“Please give my daughter justice.” In an exclusive interview by the BBC’s Samira Hussain for #Newsnight, the father of Harshita Brella, who was murdered and her body found in the boot of a car in East London, pleads for justice “any way possible.”
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Families of #Syria’s disappeared look through disfigured, emaciated corpses from Seydnaya prison to look for loved ones. The body of activist Mazen Hamada , was found among them, given rousing farewell on Damascus streets. https://t.co/jPJArjHez7
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Afghans fleeing their country and people smugglers describe the perilous out of Afghanistan - extraordinary risks in search of freedom, safety, food. @Imo_Anderson @sanjayganguly
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Afghans and a people smuggler tell the BBC about the treacherous route they take to try to get out.
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Deliberate targeting & killing of civilians by Russian drones in Kherson. @yogital spoke to witnesses & Verify located multiple incidents
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Ukrainians tell of their fear as BBC Verify analyses videos appearing to show drone strikes on civilians.
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'Shrapnel pierced his heart' 'You're constantly being hunted' BBC has heard eyewitness accounts & analysed chilling footage that suggest Russia is intentionally targeting civilians in Kherson, Ukraine. Russia's military did not respond to the allegations.
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Ukrainians tell of their fear as BBC Verify analyses videos appearing to show drone strikes on civilians.
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The medics tell us they recently treated 50 soldiers in one day - numbers rarely seen before during the course of this war. "This is the most dangerous of all front lines" a soldier says of the ferocity for the battle for Pokrovsk. #Ukraine
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The BBC visits a key city under attack by Russia and finds eroded morale among its few remaining residents.
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Fighting Russia - and low morale - on Ukraine's ‘most dangerous front line’
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The BBC visits a key city under attack by Russia and finds eroded morale among its few remaining residents.
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‘If we can’t speak, why even live?’ Women and girls in #Afghanistan tell BBC about increased fear and depression after new law which says that when they’re out of their homes, even their voices should not be heard.
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Food insecurity is an unfolding crisis in #Afghanistan resulting in 2.9 million children under the age of five facing malnutrition, including over 850 000 children with severe acute malnutrition. A third of the people in country are living in food insecure areas. The situation
700 children have died at Jalalabad’s main hospital in six months. In one small ward, every family we spoke to had lost more than one child. Aid cuts and the Taliban’s restrictions on women are dealing the deadliest blow to #Afghanistan youngest lives.
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The agony of #Afghan children. Powerful reporting by @yogital @Imo_Anderson & @sanjayganguly #Afghanistan
700 children have died at Jalalabad’s main hospital in six months. In one small ward, every family we spoke to had lost more than one child. Aid cuts and the Taliban’s restrictions on women are dealing the deadliest blow to #Afghanistan youngest lives.
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It is 2024 and 3.2 million children in #Afghanistan are suffering from acute malnutrition. Essential but heartbreaking reporting from @yogital
700 children have died at Jalalabad’s main hospital in six months. In one small ward, every family we spoke to had lost more than one child. Aid cuts and the Taliban’s restrictions on women are dealing the deadliest blow to #Afghanistan youngest lives.
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700 children have died at Jalalabad’s main hospital in six months. In one small ward, every family we spoke to had lost more than one child. Aid cuts and the Taliban’s restrictions on women are dealing the deadliest blow to #Afghanistan youngest lives.
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Acute malnutrition, which has ravaged Afghanistan for decades, has reached an unprecedented level.
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Inside Afghanistan: millions of children suffering extreme malnutrition | BBC News @yogital @Imo_Anderson @sanjayganguly
https://t.co/CPXWkBKFAJ
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