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Rageh Omaar in Hargeisa (Somaliland)and other filming Child Slavery on BBC 2: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1306704210917722516
Born in the Somali capital Mogadishu, Omaar is a son of a wealthy Isaaq businessman from the north of Somalia. His family were originally from Hargeisa in the Republic of Somaliland. Omaar came to Britain when he was 6. He was educated at two independent schools: at the Dragon School in Oxford, Oxfordshire and Cheltenham College in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, before reading Modern History at New College at the University of Oxford. His career highlights include reporting live from war-torn Somalia and Iraq.
He began his journalistic career as a trainee for The Voice newspaper, and in 1991 he moved to Ethiopia where he freelanced as a foreign correspondent, working mainly for the BBC World Service. A year later, he returned to London to work as a producer and broadcast journalist for the BBC. He moved to South Africa after being appointed the BBC's Africa correspondent - his wife and children were based there through 2004, and his regular commuting made domestic life difficult.
Career: Rageh Omaar established himself as an internationally recognised journalist when he reported for the BBC during the American led invasion of Iraq.
It was during this time that he was nicknamed the "Scud Stud" by the New York Post.
Since leaving the BBC he has presented a number of documentaries and written two books. He joined the new english channel Al Jazeera international.Rageh Omaar presents the channel's daily documentary strand Witness. The programme gives voice to actual witnesses of global affairs, featuring human stories made by storytellers from all walks of life, together with expert analysis, interviews and in-depth discussion. Content is also gathered from the channel's broadcast centres and draws on a new breed of video journalists reaching parts of the world often ignored. Witness also brings together the best documentaries from around the world, and allows air time for access-driven video journalists.
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This World: Slave ... ( 1 year ago by nsgunner)

This World: Slave Children with Rageh Omaar will be broadcast on Monday, 26 March, 2007 at 2100 BST on BBC Two.

I was born in ... ( 1 year ago by nsgunner)

I was born in Somaliland, the self-declared republic in the north of Somalia, where my relatives still live. A couple of miles outside the capital Hargeisa is a vast and flat savannah landscape that still belongs to nomads who herd camels and goats.

The Countrybookshop ... ( 1 year ago by nsgunner)

The Countrybookshop Spring Peak Festival 2007 will be held from 18th May to 27th May 2007. Authors appearing at the festival include John Major, Rageh Omaar, Marina Lewycka, Tony Juniper, Louis De Berniers, Mark Tully and William Dalrymple. Rageh Omaar, TV Journalist, talks about his childhood in Somalia and growing up a Muslim in Britain on the 23rd and on the 24th Tony Juniper, Executive Director of Friends of the Earth, discusses 'How Many Lightbulbs Does it Take to Change a Planet?

The winners of the ... ( 1 year ago by nsgunner)

The winners of the 16th annual Amnesty International UK Media Awards, sponsored by PCI:Fitch, will be announced at a ceremony at the Café Royal, London, on Wednesday 4 July, hosted by Al Jazeera English presenter and writer Rageh Omaar.