Allan Little is a Special Correspondent for BBC News. He has worked for the corporation for more than four decades, and devoted much of his career to reporting on news overseas.

Allan witnessed the anti-communist revolutions that swept Eastern and Central Europe in 1989, and reported the invasion of Kuwait in 1990 and first Gulf War that soon followed. In the summer of 1991, Allan travelled to the former Yugoslavia when fighting first broke out. He was to stay for four years and see the country unravel into bloody chaos and the coining of the term ‘ethnic cleansing’.

He covered the aftermath of the genocide in Rwanda before taking up the role of BBC Africa. Correspondent, broadcasting on the transition to democracy in South Africa and the civil wars in both Sierra Leone and what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Allan was a correspondent in Moscow at the close of the pre-Putin era, and Paris Correspondent in the early 2000s. He also covered the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq and the aftermath of 9/11.

Alongside his work abroad, Allan was a regular presenter of BBC Radio 4’s Today programme and Newsnight on BBC2.