Robyn Kriel joins CNN International as new East African correspondent

Cable News Network (CNN) has scooped up South Africa’s eNCA East Africa bureau chief, Robyn Kriel.

The Bulawayo-born journalist has officially become CNN International’s (DStv 401) new East African correspondent from today as South Africa’s eNCA (DStv 403) – where Robyn Kriel was the Kenyan based East African reporter – is detaching itself from comprehensive African news coverage of the continent.

Robyn Kriel has jettisoned eNCA and will now be reporting for CNN International, just like meteorologist Derek van Dam who left eNCA in August last year for CNN International, as well as Debora Patta who parted ways and is now covering Africa extensively for CBS News.

Robyn Kriel‘s future with eNCA was on the line along with about 30 other people, as eNCA started closing its bureaux across Africa and shuttering its entire African news division.

Robyn Kriel instantly raised eyebrows last month when she appeared on CNN International to do extensive coverage of the Garissa university massacre in Kenya.