Martin Seemungal
Martin Seemungal is a
CBC National News, and PBS
.
Seemungal was based in
Ebola virus in Uganda, flooding in Mozambique, famine in Malawi and a terrorist attack on Israeli tourists in Mombasa.[1] Seemungal was Africa Correspondent for both CBC News (Canada) and ABC News (US) from 1991 to 2006. During that period he was based in Johannesburg, Cape Town and Nairobi
.
He has reported from
Rwanda Exodus.[1] He has received two Emmy Awards, one for his series on Congo for ABC's Nightline in 2002 and the other, for his coverage of the Darfur crises which aired in 2004 on ABC World News Tonight. He has also been nominated for two Emmy Awards, one for his coverage of the Volcano eruption in Congo in 2002 which was broadcast on World News Tonight; the other for his series on 21st Century Africa which aired in 2008 on the PBS program Worldfocus
.
In January 2011, he became Middle East correspondent for
CTV Ottawa
from 1984 to 1988.
In 2014, Seemingal moved to PBS where he became a special correspondent for PBS NewsHour.
Seemungal is from Belleville, Ontario, Canada and graduated from Loyalist College in 1980.[1]