Will Ivorean authorities allow Laurent Gbagbo to come home and contest the presidential election
Write Laurent Gbagbo off at your peril. The former Cote d’Ivoire President who became the first former African head of state to appear in the
Write Laurent Gbagbo off at your peril. The former Cote d’Ivoire President who became the first former African head of state to appear in the
Cote d’Ivoire Presidential candidate Guillaume Soro has been fined $7-million and sentenced to 20 years in jail for embezzlement and money laundering. Soro and his
A recovery in commodity prices is providing a very promising future indeed for African economies. In its annual economic outlook the African Development Bank predicts
Belgium’s agreed to host former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo while he awaits an appeal by the International Criminal Court against his acquittal on charges
An MP in the Ivory Coast has gone on hunger strike after being sentenced one year in jail for tweeting fake news. The authorities say
International Criminal Court edges have rejected a prosecution request to keep former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo in jail while while they appeal his acquittal
Demobilised soldiers launched mutinies in three Ivory Coast cities. Military sources and residents says they’ve seized control of the country’s second-largest city Bouaké. Heavy gunfire
The electoral commission in Ivory Coast confirms the President has secured a second term in office with more than 83% of votes cast in last
Simone Gbagbo, the wife of defeated Ivory Coast President Laurent been jailed for 20 years. She’s been found guilty in Abidjan of undermining state security
Non-governmental organisations have borne the brunt of a Kenyan security crackdown. Accused of links with terrorism, 510 of them have been de-registered. Their bank accounts
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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