Rageh Omaar

Media

The elections that Africa will be watching

• 02 April 2007
• 1 comment

The importance of the forthcoming vote in Nigeria

Society

Why Mbeki is the true heir to Thatcher

• 26 March 2007
• 5 comments

Margaret Thatcher opposed sanctions in South Africa now Thabo Mbeki is doing the same for today's tyranny in Zimbabwe

Media

In Tehran, echoes of Baghdad 2002

• 05 March 2007
• 2 comments

The resigned weariness of ordinary Iranians is horribly reminiscent of pre-war Iraq

Media

We are asking the wrong questions of Iran

• 19 February 2007
• 4 comments

Rageh Omaar finds a country more complex than most in the west have ever realised

Africa

Once again, the west wages the wrong war

• 05 February 2007
• 3 comments

Rageh travels to the Republic of Somaliland to visit relatives and finds puritanical interpretations of Islam have an increasing influence

UK Politics

Mistaken assumptions of loyalty

• 22 January 2007

Rageh examines the assumption that British Muslims are likely to vote Labour

Media

How hopes of peace have evaporated

• 08 January 2007

Welcome to an uncertain and dangerous 2007

World Affairs

Somalia's ragtag Islamists are here to stay

• 11 December 2006
• 34 comments

Disturbing news from Somalia and Ethiopia, embroiled in the latest African war

Tehran's reality check for Blair

• 27 November 2006

Politics

Saddam: What will change when the dictator hangs?

• 13 November 2006