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Biography: Rageh Omaar
Rageh Omaar
Before joining the
Witness
team at Al Jazeera English, Rageh Omaar worked for the BBC as Developing World Correspondent and most recently as Africa Correspondent.
Rageh has covered stories ranging from drought in Ethiopia to devastating floods in Mozambique.
His reports during the 2003 Iraq war made him a household name.
BBC news bulletins were syndicated across the US, where the Washington Post labelled him the 'Scud Stud'.
Rageh was born in Mogadishu, Somalia in 1967, and moved to Britain as a child, attending school in Cheltenham and gaining an Honours degree in Modern History from Oxford University in 1990.
He began his journalistic career as a trainee at
The Voice
newspaper in Brixton and worked for a short time on the magazine
City
Limits
before moving to Ethiopia in 1991 where he was a freelance reporter for the BBC World Service.
More recently he wrote the biography
Only Half of Me: Being a Muslim in Britain
and told the human story of the Battle for Iraq in his book
Revolution Day
.
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