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Hanna Yusuf (1992โ€“2019) was a Somali journalist who worked for
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as a reporter and producer.


Early life and education

Hanna Yusuf was born in
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in 1992. She grew up in the
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until age 9. Later she and her family migrated to the
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. Following her degree in French and Spanish at
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, she received ''
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''s Scott Trust Bursary to complete a
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degree in newspaper journalism at
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in 2017. She spoke six languages.


Journalism

She began
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ging at a young age. Her first news article was published by ''The Independent'' in 2015 while she was still at university, on her experience of being suspected as a "jihadi bride" on arriving alone at Heathrow Airport. Before joining the BBC, she regularly contributed to ''
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'', ''
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'' and
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's ''
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''. At
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, she primarily worked for the ''
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'' programme. She investigated poor working conditions at
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and was responsible for breaking the story about and Shamima Begumโ€™s grooming by the
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.


Activism and volunteering

Yusuf was a pro- hijab activist, and in 2015 appeared in a
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made by ''
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'' in which she explained her decision at the time to wear the hijab, saying, "It has nothing to do with oppression. It's a feminist statement." She was an active volunteer at the non-profit Joseph Interfaith Foundation.


Death

Yusuf died in September 2019 in
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,
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at the age of 27. On 30 September 2019, her family released a statement about her death, describing her as a "vibrant professional who became a bridge between the media and the community". An inquest in March 2020 recorded that she had taken her own life.


Awards

Hanna Yusuf was posthumously nominated for ''
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s British Journalism Awards 2019. Special tribute was paid to her at the ceremony, where a video was played in which she had spoken of her efforts to win the trust of interviewees. The judges described her as "clearly a journalistic star in the making".


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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Yusuf, Hanna 1992 births 2019 suicides BBC newsreaders and journalists English television presenters English people of Somali descent Writers from London Suicides in Westminster 2019 deaths