Jeff Koinange No Longer with CNN After Being Called the "Kenyan Date Rape Journalist."

According to the Maynard Institute's Richard Prince, Jeff Koinange is no longer employed by CNN. Koinange was the Africa correspondent for the network and has been with CNN since 2001. He has been released, apparently, after a blog surfaced in his native Kenya referring to him as the "Kenyan date rape journalist."

Koinange "is no longer employed at CNN, and we are not commenting beyond that," spokeswoman Christa Robinson told Journal-isms. "There are several different people who will fill in for the time being."

One woman sent a confidential email to Jim Walton, the president of CNN Worldwide. An alleged copy of that email has been copied onto a blog, which states that a woman had sent Koinange a copy of a press release about her upcoming book about the killing of a minister in the Kenyan government. It then further details her correspondence with Koinange down to actually feeling threatened and harassed by him.

Jeff Koinange is a former flight attendant for Kenyan Airways, which he quit at the age of twenty one in 1987 to attend New York's Kingsborough Community College, according to the college's website which features a bio. He next attended New York University and then worked for ABC News, Medical News Network, NBC and then Reuters Television, according to "Journal-isms."

Koinange was technically the African correspondent for CNN but also worked outside of Africa. He, in 2005, was part of the CNN award winning Peabody team who covered the devestation of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, Louisiana. He has also worked in Baghdad, Iraq during critical times such as the 2005 elections held there.

Koinange was last seen on CNN on May 17, 2007 on Anderson Cooper's 360º while he was in Darfur, in Sudan. Cooper said of Koinange, "We're joined in the hour ahead with CNN's Africa Correspondent Jeff Koinange, who has risked his life on many occasions to bring the countries of Africa, the reality of Africa, into our living rooms." reports "Journal-isms."