Twenty-five years after famine devastated Ethiopia, poverty still mars the country’s image. Worldfocus correspondent Martin Seemungal explores another side of Ethiopia. He reports on Ethiopia’s people, religion, and beauty and explores the relics that dot the landscape in the northern part of the country.

In birthplace of coffee, Ethiopian farmers plant other crops

A museum is being erected in Bonga, Ethiopia — the birthplace of coffee. But because small-scale farmers are fragmented and disorganized, they are reaching the potential of the coffee crop. Worldfocus correspondent Martin Seemungal reports from Ethiopia’s coffee country, where farmers are deciding to plant corn and khat, a leafy drug that is chewed with stimulating effects somewhere between caffeine and cocaine.

Old ways endure in remote rural village in northern Ethiopia

Worldfocus correspondent Martin Seemungal travels to a remote village in the highlands of Ethiopia. He observes a traditional way of life that is virtually cut off from the rest of the world.