Errol Barnett leaving CNN

CNN this past week announced that Europe, Middle East and Africa breakfast show host, Errol Barnett, is leaving the organisation.

Prior to hosting CNN Newsroom, Barnett was a correspondent based out of the channel's Johannesburg bureau and presented the magazine show Inside Africa.

Barnett leaves CNN to become a Washington-based correspondent at the American broadcast network, CBS, the same channel Debora Patta works at. On the move, Barnett said that he is 'moving from one dream job to another.'

No announcement has yet been named on who will take over from Barnett, who co anchors the 8am-10am (CAT) slot with Rosemary CHurch.

CNN Relaunches CNN Newsroom

CNNi (DStv 401) has announced that they will be relaunching their CNN Newsroom block that airs on weekday mornings between 7am and 11am CAT.

This follows months of testing various anchor lineups to see what gels best and they have finally settled on a permanent anchor lineup.

From 7am to 9am African viewers can look.forward to veteran anchor John Vause, who is joined by Zain Asher, who joined CNNi a few months ago from CNN Money.

From 9am to 11am, viewers can look forward to longtime anchor Rosemary Church alongside former African-based correspondent, Errol Barnnett.

They will thankfully be abandoning the dreaded bluebscreen backgrounds and will fully adapt the look of CNN Today, which airs after midnight in the African region.

Other than that, viewers can expect the news they have become used to seeing at those times on CNNi.