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He started his BBC career in as a researcher in Glasgow before joining the Today programme, specialising in foreign reporting. As a correspondent in Johannesburg, Moscow and Paris, he won several awards for his reports and documentaries. His departure will be "felt deeply", the BBC said in a statement. Mr Munro said: "His career has defined a generation of superb, committed journalists and, in doing so, burnished the reputation of BBC News.

His book The Death of Yugoslavia accompanied the television series of the same name.

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In , he was despatched to the former Yugoslavia, where he spent the next four years reporting on the conflict in the region. Little moved to Johannesburg in for a two-year stint as South Africa correspondent. During this time, he reported on the aftermath of the genocide in Rwanda, the fall of President Mobutu and the outbreak of the Ebola virus in Zaire.

He then worked as the BBC's Africa correspondent from to and as the Paris correspondent from to Little returned to Moscow in to reflect on the Russian presidential elections with Mikhail Gorbachev. In his more recent role as a BBC special correspondent, he has reported widely on devolution and the questions around Scottish independence.