Rageh Omaar

Rageh Omaar was born in Mogadishu, Somalia in 1967 and lived there until he was six. He began his journalistic career in the Africa service of the BBC World Service. In 2000 he was awarded a Prix Bayeux award for his coverage of the Ethiopia-Eritrea War and from 2001 to 2003 he was BBC TV News Africa correspondent, based in Johannesburg. In 2002 he was the only western television reporter with the Taliban in Kabul when the city fell, and his reports helped the BBC win a Royal Television Society...See more

Rageh Omaar was born in Mogadishu, Somalia in 1967 and lived there until he was six. He began his journalistic career in the Africa service of the BBC World Service. In 2000 he was awarded a Prix Bayeux award for his coverage of the Ethiopia-Eritrea War and from 2001 to 2003 he was BBC TV News Africa correspondent, based in Johannesburg. In 2002 he was the only western television reporter with the Taliban in Kabul when the city fell, and his reports helped the BBC win a Royal Television Society award for the coverage of the fall of Kabul. He lives in London with his wife and two children. He is currently at work on a memoir about the war in Somalia. See less