Tomorrow’s re-run presidential election is set to go ahead in Kenya after today’s no-show by five of the seven Supreme Court judges due to hear
Western envoys have warned about growing insecurity in Kenya ahead of Thursday’s re-run election. President Uhuru Kenyatta insists the poll will go ahead and warns
Kenya’s electoral commission head Ezra Chiloba has gone on leave three days before the country’s re-run election. Another member of the commission, Roselyn Akombe has
A senior Kenyan election officials has fled to New York and resigned, saying she feels unsafe Roselyn Akombe says that as currently constituted, the Independent
A Kenyan youth has returned to the boarding school that suspended him for fighting and killed five pupils and a security guard. With two
In the run-up to Kenya’s re-run election, political protests have been banned in Nairobi, Mombasa and Kisumu. Government cites demonstrators’ lawless for this sweeping measure.
Kenya’s indpendent electoral commission’s decided all eight candidates from August’s overturned presidential poll will appear on the ballot paper for the re-run election in a
There’s political confusion in Kenya following opposition leader Raila Odinga’s withdrawal from the re-run election ordered by the Supreme Court for October 26. Parliament and
Kenya’s in a state of full blown political crisis after opposition leader Raila Odinga withdrew from the court-ordered election re-run in less than two weeks.
Kenya’s prosecuting authority’s investigating the electoral commission over possible misconduct in last month’s annulled vote. The Supreme Court annulled the result of August 8, poll
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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