# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rageh-omaar
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:52:23.044Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rageh-omaar"
name: "Rageh Omaar"
slug: "rageh-omaar"
description: "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. The Rageh Omaar Report, first aired in February 2010, is a one-hour, monthly investigative documentary in which he reports on international current affairs stories. From January 2013, he became a special correspondent and presenter for ITV News, reporting on a broad range of news stories, as well as producing special in-depth reports from around the UK and further afield. A year after his appointment, Omaar was promoted to international affairs editor for ITV News. Since October 2015, alongside his duties as international affairs editor, he has been a deputy newscaster of ITV News at Ten. Since September 2017, Omaar has occasionally presented the ITV Lunchtime News including the ITV News London Lunchtime Bulletin and the ITV Evening News."
tagline: "British journalist and writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Rageh_Omaar.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1967-07-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           46.06
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.062424
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/ragehomaar"
    handle:    "ragehomaar"
sources:
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    title: "Raage Oomaar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "راجح عمر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "راجح عمر"
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    title: "রাগেহ ওমর"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rageh_Omaar"
    title: "Rageh Omaar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "راجح عمر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rageh_Omaar"
    title: "Rageh Omaar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rageh_Omaar"
    title: "Rageh Omaar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump