COVID 19 provokes the introduction: “Had it not been for the pandemic, this would be the time for ……” That encompasses both good and bad.
European ministers have urged Libyan parties to observe a truce during Ramadan. They say they’re echoing the call by United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres.
The United Nations is warning about war crimes in Libya where civilians are sandwiched between government forces and rebels bent on occupying the capital Tripoli.
The United Nations High Commission For Refugees has raised the alarm for 85 migrants lost at sea between Libya and Italy. The European border guard
Italy’s refusing to open its ports to migrants rescued in the Mediterranean until they’ve been screened and quarantined. The ban applies to 150 people rescued
The United Nations deplores a rebel attack on a hospital treating COVID 19 patients in Tripoli injuring six medical workers. The world organization condemns what
The European Union today started a one-year air sea and space operation enforcing the United Nations arms embargo on Libya. It will involve searching ships
Libya’s joined Ethiopia and Egypt in releasing short-term prisoners from overcrowded jails to curb the spread of COVID 19. Warring parties in the oil-rich North
United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres has urged warring parties across the planet today down arms and support the fight against COVID 19. He describes
Libya’s Prime Minister is in Pretoria to brief President Cyril Ramaphosa ahead of Thursday’s meeting of the African Union body charged with that troubled North
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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