CNBC Africa and Bronwyn Nielsen in Davos for the 2016 World Economic Forum (WEF); Eleni Giokos also there covering for CNN International's Marketplace Africa.

CNBC Africa (DStv 410) will again be covering the 2016 World Economic Forum (WEF) with anchor Bronwyn Nielsen in Davos Switzerland from Wednesday, 20 January, with CNN International's (DStv 401) Eleni Giokos also there to cover the annual gathering for CNN Marketplace Africa.

CNBC Africa says the business channel has a seasoned editorial team deployed in Davos, Switzerland and that CNBC Africa will be crossing to the 2016 WEF throughout the 3-day gathering, interviewing some of the world's top business leaders and global thinkers on the state of the world in 2016.

Tomorrow, on Wednesday 20 January, CNBC Africa will host a discussion at the Grischa Hotel in Davos with Bronwyn Nielsen, senior anchor and executive director, as the moderator and which will be broadcast on CNBC Africa.

This panel will include Ben Kruger (Standard Bank joint-CEO), Vassi Naidoo (Nedbank executive chairperson), Nicky Newton-King (JSE CEO) and Geoffrey Qhena (IDC CEO).

On Thursday, 21 January, from 11:30 to 12:30 CNBC Africa will moderate another debate, entitled "Africa's Next Challenge" also moderated by Bronwyn Nielsen that will be broadcast live.

The panelists will include South African president Jacob Zuma, Hailemarain Desalegn (Ethoipia's prime minister), Akinwumi Adesina (African Development Bank president) and Hans Vestberg (Ericcson Sweden president and CEO).

CNN International's (DStv 401) Eleni Giokos is also in the snow-covered Davos where she's been several times before and will be covering the event primarily for CNN's Marketplace Africa.

In a new Davos Diaries video Eleni Giokos says she is once again in Davos to cover "the African story" and what the message is this year for the African continent.

"Look out for our coverage in Marketplace Africa. I will also be keeping a close watch on the Greek prime minister, Alexi Tsipras - I know he's here to meet with a few investors, and of course the IMF chief as well, Christine Lagarde," says Eleni Giokos.

CNN International snaps up Eleni Giokos as African business correspondent; will report on news and business, work across CNN's Africa programmes.

In a hiring coup, CNN International (DStv 401) has appointed the wanderlust reporter and anchor Eleni Giokos as an African business correspondent based in the news network's Johannesburg bureau.

Eleni Giokos who already did her first on-air interview for CNN Marketplace Africa on Friday joins CNN International after Bloomberg Television downsized this year and quietly shuttered its dedicated Africa business coverage.

Eleni Giokos joined Bloomberg TV Africa from eNCA (DStv 403) exactly two years ago as senior anchor and financial journalist anchoring two programmes for the channel just as she was about to anchor a new business show on eNCA. Before eNCA she anchored on and was a business reporter for CNBC Africa (DStv 410).

Eleni Giokos' addition to CNN International's Africa team bolsters the already formidable, and phenomenal, line-up of on-air talent of the TV news channel.

Eleni Giokos is now part of the CNN International Africa group that includes names like the extremely knowledgeable and experienced Robyn Kriel who also left eNCA earlier this year to join CNN International, David McKenzie who returned to Africa from covering China for CNN International a few month ago, and Soni Methu coming into her own as the presenter of the weekly Inside Africa magazine show.

No longer based in South Africa, but anchoring daily for CNN International is the excellent Robyn Curnow, hailing from South Africa.

According to CNN International, Eleni Giokos, who has an honours degree in journalism and media studies from the University of Witwatersrand, will take on a range of responsibilities for the network.

Besides reporting on news and business stories, Eleni Giokos will work across CNN International's African feature programmes, including Marketplace Africa and African Voices.

"Eleni is an enormously talented and versatile broadcaster," says Mike McCarthy, the senior vice president for programming at CNN International.

"She has interviewed world leaders, covered major breaking news stories, and presented network feature programmes. Her appointment underlines our commitment to African stories and African audiences. We're delighted to have her here at CNN."

BREAKING. Robyn Curnow of Marketplace Africa on CNN International also gets a sit-down interview with Oprah shown tonight.

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It wasn't just CNBC Africa (DStv 410) - South Africa's TV reporter Robyn Curnow of CNN International (DStv 401) also scored a big sit-down TV interview with Oprah Winfrey which will be shown on Robyn Curnow's show Marketplace Africa tonight at 21:45 (South African time).

So much for the blatantly lying CNBC Africa which billed its South African sit-down TV interview with Oprah Winfrey on Tuesday as an ''exclusive''. It clearly wasn't.

Robyn Curnow's interview for Marketplace Africa also took the form of a sit-down interview in one of the classrooms at the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls near Henley-on-Klip where the talk show titan visited this past weekend for the special graduation ceremony on Saturday of the first class of 72 girls who were the first to matriculate from her private girls' school.

''She was very generous with her time, delivered immaculate sound bites, offered up snippets of her own tragedies, created an intimacy with our crew in that small classroom and was, basically, a consummate performer,'' says Robyn Curnow, hinting about what viewers will be able to see in tonight's Marketplace Africa interview.

Robyn Curnow also fearlessly went there and asked Oprah Winfrey about the girl who secretly gave birth last year at the school after concealing her pregnancy. The pregnant teen's baby died and was hidden in a school bag. Oprah Winfrey answers, expressing her disappointment in the student, saying the girl showed ''poor leadership'' and is now at a different school.

Robyn Curnow also asks, and Oprah Winfrey answers, about the molestation scandal at the private girls' school, saying she did everything imaginable from protecting the girls but never imagined the danger would come from inside the school and women she had hired.

Robyn Curnow also asks about Barack Obama, and although Oprah Winfrey initially didn't want to talk about the American president (HERE is what Oprah Winfrey said on Tuesday on CNBC Africa in answer to the same question) - she then suddenly changes her mind and does.

Oprah Winfrey's interview on Marketplace Africa is shown tonight at 21:45 on CNN International, with rebroadcasts Saturday at 05:45, 08:15, 18:15 and Sunday at 03:15 and 18:15.

INTERVIEW. Robyn Curnow, anchor of the new CNN Marketplace Africa: ''It's a great opportunity to tell African business stories.''

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I've told you about the brand-new CNN Marketplace Africa on CNN International (DStv 401) RIGHT HERE, Wednesdays at 20:45, anchored by South Africa's Robyn Curnow.

I spoke with her recently about the brand-new addition to the CNN International programming line-up to find out what CNN Marketplace Africa is all about and how the show will be different. I asked her about the challenges about the new weekly show she will be anchoring, what stories CNN Marketplace Africa will be covering, and what she's looking forward to the most to achieve.

Click on READ MORE below for my interview with Robyn Curnow.

Programming note: CNN International's new Marketplace Africa business show debuts tonight.

The brand-new weekly business show, Marketplace Africa on CNN International (DStv 401) debuts tonight at 21:45 on the global news channel, anchored by South Africa's own Robyn Curnow. Marketplace Africa will repeat on Saturdays and Sundays.

The new weekly business show, that adds to CNN International's African programming perspective that already include African Voices and Inside Africa, will look at African business both on and off the continent.

''We want to go beyond the pure numbers, and showcase for our international audience the new technologies, business solutions and trends redefining African business,'' says Kim Norgaard, CNN International's Johannesburg bureau chief. ''African business is becoming increasingly influential in international trade and investment, and we hope this show will be the home for big names driving African commerce forward.''

Marketplace Africa is done from CNN International's Johannesburg bureau and will also include on-location broadcasts in future. In tonight's first broadcast the head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Dominique Strauss-Kahn talks about the investment climate in Africa, the restructuring of Zimbabwe's economy, and how the IMF is overcoming its image crisis on the continent. CNN International's South Africa correspondent Nkepile Mabuse also visits a mine to see the technology used to curb diamond theft.