ABCNEWS' Martin Seemungal

— -- Martin Seemungal is Africa correspondent for ABCNEWS, based in Nairobi, Kenya.

Seemungal joined ABCNEWS in 2000 and has covered major events including: the outbreak of the Ebola virus in Uganda, the flooding in Mozambique, the famine in Malawi and the recent terrorist attack on Israeli tourists in Mombasa. Throughout his career, Seemungal has traveled and reported from locales such as Uganda, South Africa, Mozambique, Congo, Somalia, India and Kuwait.

Seemungal was the correspondent on the Nightline series, Heart of Darkness about Congo, that was recognized with the Columbia University prestigious DuPont Award this year. Seemungal has also worked at the ABCNEWS bureau in Jerusalem, and, since Sept. 11, 2001, has been on assignment in Yemen and Northern Afghanistan.

Before joining ABCNEWS, Seemungal served as an international and foreign correspondent for the CBC National News. As a correspondent for the CBC, he covered South Africa's transition to non-racial government, Canadian and U.S. Air Force involvement in raids on Iraq in the 1990s. He also spent two months reporting from a Canadian warship during the Gulf War and was in Kuwait City during the first days it was recaptured by U.S. led forces.

Seemungal also garnered a Gemini Award nomination for Best Television Reporting for his coverage on the Rwanda Exodus, as well as first place recognition at the Monte Carlo Television Festival for Best Television reporting for his work on the 1994 riots in Johannesburg. In 1989, he traveled to Moscow for the aftermath of the Armenian earthquake. Seemungal started his career at CKWS Television in 1980. His first overseas assignment was with CJOH Television in 1984 covering the famine in Ethiopia.

A native of Belleville, Ontario, Seemungal is a 1980 graduate of Loyalist College in Belleville, Ontario.