Gabon’s power elite has stepped in to stop the Appeal Court ruling on President Ali Bongo’s fitness to hold power. A judge prepared to hear
South Africa’s joined the condemnation of yesterday’s military coup attempt in Gabon. Two of the five coup leaders have been killed as the army restores
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Gabon’s government says an attempted coup d’etat has been thwarted. Five rebel soldiers who took over the radio station this morning have been arrested. The
Gabon’s seriously ill President Ali Bongo is being moved from Saudi Arabia to Morocco to convalesce after emergency surgery. In the absence of the 59-year-old,
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The Bongo family’s extend its 50-year rule over Gabon after the country’s constitutional court ruled Ali Bongo was the rightful winner of last month’s contested
Gabon’s opposition leader Jean Ping’s turned to the courts to challenge the outcome of a presidential election. The arrival of an African Union mission in
Facing growing pressure at home and abroad to recount the votes that gave him a second term as Gabon’s President, Ali Bongo has rounded on
An EU mission has questioned the validity of elections that saw Gabon’s president, Ali Bongo, re-elected by a very narrow margin. France has recommended a
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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