Lukwesa Burak is a news presenter and former weather presenter for BBC News in the UK.
19 Facts About Lukwesa Burak
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Lukwesa Burak was formerly a weather forecaster and then news presenter in the United Kingdom, for East Midlands Today, a regional television news programme covering the Midlands area of Central England, followed by news presenter for Sky News, the 24-hour television news service operated by Sky Television, part of British Sky Broadcasting, based in London.
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Lukwesa Burak became a news presenter for eNCA in August 2012.
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Lukwesa Burak is a regular presenter of Newsday on BBC World News, BBC One, and the BBC News Channel in London with Sharanjit Leyl in Singapore and on Focus on Africa on BBC World News and World News Today on BBC Four, BBC World News and the BBC News Channel on as well as mornings, afternoons and evenings on Saturdays and Sundays.
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Lukwesa Burak's father is of Zambian and Greek heritage, her mother of Zimbabwean and Portuguese heritage and her stepfather is Polish.
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Lukwesa Burak spent her early childhood in Triangle, Zimbabwe, where she attended Murray MacDougall Junior School, before she moved to England when she was eight years old and lived in Guiseley, West Yorkshire and attended Menston Primary School and St Mary's Catholic High School in Menston.
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Lukwesa Burak had an interest in flying, so joined the Royal Air Force Air Training Corps, but had to leave after injuring her leg during a game of football.
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Lukwesa Burak gained a bachelor's degree in Geography and European Studies at the University of Sussex, when she spent a year in Switzerland and learned to speak French.
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Lukwesa Burak was then awarded a European Union scholarship to complete a Master of Science degree at the University of Leicester.
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Lukwesa Burak began broadcasting as a relief forecaster for BBC regions and nations, eventually joining BBC East Midlands as one of their permanent forecast team, before becoming the lunchtime news anchor.
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Lukwesa Burak left Sky News in 2012, but returned in 2013.
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Lukwesa Burak said that she had to relocate to South Africa as her husband had been offered a new job there, but that she was very much looking forward to the opportunity to join the channel's Africa Edition team and to have the opportunity to conduct live interviews rather than dealing with predominantly pre-recorded material.
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Lukwesa Burak joined the team of Al Jazeera English in Doha.
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In May 2016 Lukwesa Burak returned to BBC News, joining BBC East Midlands and BBC World News.
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Lukwesa Burak began presenting on the BBC News Channel on 13 August 2016.
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Lukwesa Burak went on to anchor the BBC World News channel in London.
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Lukwesa Burak was portrayed on the cover of Issue 2 of UK Zambians' Lifestyle Magazine in the summer of 2008.
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Lukwesa Burak was appointed patron of the charity All Star Kids at the start of December 2008.
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Lukwesa Burak is an ambassador for Malaria No More UK, as a result of her own personal experiences as a child.