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Rageh Omaar on BBc Question Time (Part6)
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Rageh Omaar's BBC Videos: http://search.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/search/results.pl?tab=av&q=rageh%20omaar%20&recipe=all&scope=all&edition=d 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. Well Done Rageh, proud to be British and Somali. ...
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