Peter Mutharika’s narrowly won a second term as Malawi’s President with thirty eight and half percent of the vote. The result was released last night
Announcement of results from Malawi’s election has been suspended after the High Court ordered a recount of a third of the ballot cast last Tuesday.
Seven million Malawians go the polls today for the fifth elections since 1994 when the country ended 30 years of authoritarian rule. There are seven
Observers to Malawi’s sixth democratic election are predicting a high turnout. This will make for an exciting contest between President Peter Mutharika, his vice president
by Jean-Jacques Cornish The election currently underway in Malawi perfectly illustrates the generational battle in African politics. Peter Mutharika, vying for a second and final
Malawians go the polls to tomorrow for parliamentary and presidential elections. Organizers fear that the race for the top job is being so closely contested
Campaigning’s at full stretch ahead of Malawi’s presidential election next Tuesday. Peter Mutharika, seeking a second final term at the helm faces tough competition from
Malawi’s made medical history as the first country to experience a roll out of an approved malaria vaccine. Ghana and Kenya will soon join the
A court injunction in Malawi has stopped the erection of a statue of Mahatma Gandhi. More than 3000 Malawians signed a petition declaring Gandhi made
Former Malawian President Joyce Banda says she’ll contest next year’s elections in the cash-strapped Central African country if her People’s Party nominates her. Banda returned
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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