Rageh Omaar

Birthday

1967-07-19 (58 years old)

Place of birth

Mogadishu, Somalia

Biography

Rageh Omaar is a Somali-born British journalist and writer. He was a BBC world affairs correspondent, where he made his name reporting from Iraq. In September 2006, he moved to a new post at Al Jazeera English, where he presented the nightly weekday documentary series Witness until January 2010. Read more