Rageh Omaar in Hargeisa (Somaliland)

Rageh Omaar's BBC Videos: http://search.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/search/results.pl?scope=all&edition=d&...

Visit the BBC website to learn more about Rageh Omaar's 'This World' programme Child Slavery on BBC 2: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1306704210917722516

Watch the whole programm in here:
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]

Shacbiga reer Somaliland waxa uu si gaar ah tacsi ugu dirayaa qoyskii iyo qaraabadii uu ka baxay MARXUUM CABDILAAHI OOMAAR CAWAALE , waxaana uu ilaahay uga baryayaa, inuu jannooyinkiisa ka waraabiyo, Samir iyo iimaana eheladiisa ka siiyo.

Aamiin..Aamiin...Aamiin

INAA LILAAHI WA INAA ILAYHI RAAJUCUUN

[nsgunner]

Hargeisa, 29 April 2009 (Somalilandpress) — Somali born Al Jazeera correspondent, Rageh Omar who rose to fame in 2003 for his distinguished coverage of the Iraq invasion for the BBC, flew back to Hargeisa after many years living abroard - to do a documentary film on displaced people from Somalia.

[nsgunner]

Rageh: I came here yesterday, I went to a number of African countries, such as Nigeria, Ghana, Uganda and various other ones, the aim of my trip was to film a documentary that will explore many issues confronted by people who were recently displaced from Southern Somalia, after speaking to many of them in all those countries, it came to my mind then I should also add Somaliland where many of them came to seek better life.

[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]

Watch the whole documentary on google video: Child slavery with Rageh Omaar.

[nsgunner]

BBC 2 showed an excellent and very powerful and moving documentary about Child Slavery. It was presented by Somaliland's own Rageh Omaar and started off with looking a ten year old boy working in a restaurant/bar in Hargeisa, before looking at less fortunate children in other parts of the world.

[ingly2007]

Did u watched the documentary ? it was about child slavery around the around, nothing to do with Somaliland mate. There no Child slavery in Somaliland.

[missgarowe]

There are some things that are so obvious and simple that there is no need to go into great detail. This video is not about division or clan or whatever. Come on people let's get together. Honesty it is time to act as one people—united under shared values and principles. Our children are suffering from illnesses, lack of education and injustice. We need to do so much more than talk talk so that we can help those kids and our country

[Az0000zA]

guys dont u think we have to change our beloved somaliland to isaq land i dont like somali name but i love to be isaq god bless isaq ppl .

[heatholderz]

nice documentary brings up gd points but on a lighter note who saw 'Kalabayd' the traffic officer throwin his hands around crazy in Somaliland part, that guy was hilarious he used 2 stop traffic 2 let me drive thru whilst salutin thats gangsta

[jislboy]

Somaliland has to keep distinguishing itself from Somalia . Somaliland also must be vigilant and double its efforts to prevent the importation of the failed and deadly southern political culture into Somaliland . Those cowards can't harm strong Somaliland. Somalilanders love their country and they know these un-islmic terrorists. Long line Somaliland

[k00lgurl017]

Greatersmalia- Dilac oo dhac dheh

[unwr2007]

sometimes somalis are stuupd thier fighting about qabil ppl this is NOT about somalia somaliland or my ass... this somali nigga iz talking about child slavery bitch so stop talking about qabil errtime u see some somali person on tv fagtssssss basterds

[totalboy88]

caliuraare your name says it all you stink, rage might have been born in moqdishu which was our capital then, there was tens of thousands isaaqs whomwhe born there and whom have had thosands of busineses so rage is isaaq, to be exact h/awal so you must be insane and most of his family are still in hargaisa.

[mercurytears]

hey Caluiraaye do you have Tourette syndrome? You don't need to post your lousy comment 4 times, alright? And by the way watch the video, he STATES he's from Somaliland and that's his HOMELAND!... The words came out of his mouth...