There are questions about who is behind the kidnapping of pupils and staff at a boarding school in northwestern Cameroon. The government in Yaounde is
Votes are being counted after yesterday’s presidential election in Cameroon. Three people died when police fired on protestors in the Anglophone northwest of the country.
Cameroon’s 85-year-old President Paul Biya is seeking to extend his 35-year rule after elections on Sunday. English-speaking Cameroonians are threatening to boycott the poll, after
As exhaustive search by a television team has identified three Cameroonian soldiers who shot two woman and their children in cold blood. Authorities in Yaoundè,
Dozens of people have been killed in clashes between Anglophone activists in Cameroon and the police. Opposition sources said 22 died at the weekend in
Time has run out for more than a dozen African athletes who did not go home after last month’s Gold Coast Commonwealth Games. Their visas
Pan African Parliament President Roger Dang says continental MPs must once again be involved in election observation as member of the Midland-Based body. The Cameroonian
Cameroon’s President Paul Biya , who’s campaigning to extend his 35 years in power after the presidential election in October is possibly the leader who’s
Residents fleeing English-speaking parts of Cameroon accuse government forces of killing, raping and harassing them. They say soldiers manning checkpoints on their road to safety
English-speaking schools in Cameroon have stayed closed this week as part of a demonstration against marginalization in the majority French-speaking country. Troops are on the
Jean-Jacques Cornish is a journalist and broadcaster who has been involved in the media all his adult life.
Starting as a reporter on his hometown newspaper, he moved briefly to then Rhodesia before returning to South Africa to become a parliamentary correspondent with the South African Press Association. He was sent to London as Sapa’s London editor and also served as special correspondent to the United Nations. He joined the then Argus group in London as political correspondent.
Returning to South Africa after 12 years abroad, he was assistant editor on the Pretoria News for a decade before becoming editor of the Star and SA Times for five years.
Since 1999 he’s been an independent journalist writing and broadcasting – mainly about Africa – for Talk Radio 702 and 567 Cape Talk, Radio France International, PressTV, Radio Live New Zealand, Business Day, Mail & Guardian, the BBC, Agence France Press, Business in Africa, Leadership, India Today, the South African Institute for International Affairs and the Institute for Security Studies.
He has hosted current affairs talk shows on Talk Radio 702 and 567 Cape Talk. He appears as an African affairs pundit on SABC Africa and CNBC Africa.
He lectured in contemporary studies to journalism students at the Tshwane University of Technology and the University of Pretoria.
He speaks on African affairs to corporate and other audiences.
He has been officially invited as a journalist to more than 30 countries. He was the winner of the 2007 SADC award for radio journalism.
He’s been a member of the EISA team observing elections in Somaliland, Democratic Republic of Congo, Madagascar, Zimbabwe, Egypt and Tunsiai.
In October 2009 he headed a group of 39 African journalists to the 60th anniversary celebrations of the Peoples’ Republic of China.
In January 2010 he joined a rescue and paramedical team to earthquake struck Haiti.
He is immediate past president of the Alliance Francaise of Pretoria.
Jean-Jacques is a director of Giant Media. The company was given access to Nelson Mandela in his retirement years until 2009.
He is co-producer of the hour-long documentary Mandela at 90 that was broadcast on BBC in January 2009.
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