The European Union says the expulsion of its envoy to the Democratic Republic of Congo is completely unjustified. Bart Ouvry is being booted out because
President Joseph Kabila insists the DRC electoral law provides for the more than one million people barred from voting in Sunday’s presidential election. Angry voters
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The Democratic Republic of Congo’s on a knife edge after the Presidential election scheduled for tomorrow was delayed by a week. Opposition supporters say the
Angry opposition supporters in the Democratic Republic of Congo have taken to the streets protesting against the seven-day delay in holding the country’s presidential election.
Presidential elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo have been delayed for a week. The country’s electoral commission says a fire in its warehouse last
Presidential elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo look like being delayed for at least a few days. This follows an admission to the candidates
Washington’s pulling its non-essential diplomatic staff out of the Democratic Republic of Congo ahead of elections in five days time. The embassies of Canada, Britain
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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