Rageh Omaar was born in Mogadishu, Somalia in 1967 and lived there until he was six years old when his family moved to the UK.
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 Ethiopian-Eritrean War and from 2001-2003 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 won an EMMA award for best TV journalist in 2002 and 2003.
He now lives in London with his wife and two children.
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 Ethiopian-Eritrean War and from 2001-2003 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 won an EMMA award for best TV journalist in 2002 and 2003.
He now lives in London with his wife and two children.