[citation needed] Omaar was educated at a boarding school in Dorset before graduating from Trinity College, Oxford University.

[6] Starting August 2011, Mohamed Mohamud Ibrahim served as Omaar's Deputy Foreign Minister.

Following a cabinet reshuffle in February 2012, Abdullahi Haji Hassan succeeded Omaar as the new Foreign Minister.

[7] Puntland and Qatar supported Omaar’s bid to become Prime Minister of Somalia in late 2013.

[8] J. Ferguson, The World's Most Dangerous Place: Inside the Outlaw State of Somalia, p. 83