Rageh omaar on BBC Question Time (Part2)

See Rageh Omaar's BBC Videos: http://search.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/search/results.pl?tab=av&q=rageh%20omaar%...

See Rageh Omaar in Hargeisa (Somaliland)and other countries, 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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[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.

[nsgunner]

Film Show and Q&A with Rageh Omaar

Plus Paul Sapin (Director) Ziba Mir Hosseini (London Middle East Institute) Elaheh Rostami Povey (School of Oriental and African Studies)

7pm, Thursday 14th June

London Irish Centre, 52 Camden Square (off Camden Road), London, NW1 9XB.

Near Camden Road BR, Camden Town tube

[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.

[nsgunner]

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

[whambam06]

Rageh Omaar is a legend of the modern era!

[22garaad]

rageh omaar is an inspiration to every somali person!

[HannahGirl81]

Somalis are the scum of Africa. Send them all back!

[MrGuugaalre]

@whambam06

raage omer is hypocrite , during iraq , war he was spy for iraqi people

all other journalist were killed , he was safe of that reason

somali land waa la wasaa

[vinnieg100]

@2008flawless your obviously an American otherwise you would have found it in seconds. Its in that big heartshaped thing just underneath Europe.

[2008flawless]

somaliland...? wtf! where's somaliland..? Oh, they meant SOMALIA LMFAO.... i was lookin 4 it on the world map for ages :P

[flyestsinner]

@QG001 Walle run baad sheegtay; SOMALIA hal waaye... go ahead and be proud of who u are... don't self hate and call yourself something you are not

[TheLibaax]

@QG001 he is my cousin and he is from somaliland he ain't from futowayn so you get a life we as somalilanders have had already one ! my advise to you all is get your head out of your flat black and dirty ugly assholes before you say something on somaliland.

[killergulle21]

yh but they r still welcomed to suck it

[QG001]

I dont think it's okay to talk about people that way. We are all somalis and Alxamdullilah muslims. But yea i think ther's nothing called Somaliland and only Somalia

[QG001]

I couldn't say it more PERFECT !

- Only one somalia like Sulai Naaji says i his songs Somalia haal waaye !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[QG001]

LOL it's not about the name. The so called ' country' came up in the 90's. ? That's not a country the world hasn't even accept. the state as a country. 20 years ago you guys were holding a somali flag in your hand and were calling each other somalis. I'm sorry but it will always be SOMALIA. Be proud of who you are and do not make up a country of nowhere and say it is a country. I will belive in a country called somaliland if it's on a map.But until then it's just a state. Sorry. :/ VIVA SOMALIA!