France’s President Emmanuel Macron says African leaders on the fringe of the Sahara desert must say if they need France to continue helping them in
Malian forces supported by their allies from the five-nation Sahel anti terror group are retaliating against the worst attacks in the seven-year jihadi insurgency. 25
Paris warns West Africa not to take for granted the deployment of French troops fighting Islamist militants. There’s no suggestion of France’s operation Burkhane being
Mali’s Prime Minister and government resigned over the inability to control a deadly spike in violence. Soumeylou Boubeye Maiga was due to face a parliamentary
Islamist terrorists have killed ten United Nations peacekeepers in an attack on a northern Mali town. 25 Chadian troop were injured in the raid by
Men dressed as traditional hunters have raided a village in central Mali killing at least 31 people. The victims include children and old people.
Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, sworn in for a second term as Mali’s President, has his work cut out. His opponent Soumaila Cisse maintains the run-off election
Most Malian voters appear to have stayed away from yesterday’s presidential run-off election marred by attacks on several polling stations and the death of an
UN experts say the five-nation group fighting jihadis in North and West Africa’s facing intensified terrorist threats. Their report to the UN Security Council coincided
The five-nation anti jihadi force in West Africa will reach full capacity in March this year, a special conference in Bamako has heard. The so-called
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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