Morocco facing a torrid time this year at the UN decolonization committee
by Jean-Jacques Cornish Morocco and its supporters face a particularly torrid time when the United Nations General Assembly to his week turns to the 17
by Jean-Jacques Cornish Morocco and its supporters face a particularly torrid time when the United Nations General Assembly to his week turns to the 17
Morocco’s Ambassador in Pretoria has taken the diplomatically unheard of step of attacking his host government. Youssef Amrani.calls South Africa’s statement on the Western Sahara
Moroccan authorities have confirmed a death from coronavirus. It’s the second on the African continent. The victim is an 89-year-old woman who contracted COVID 19
Human rights activists fear that personal freedoms are under increasing attack in Morocco. This follows the jailing this week of a social media commentator who’s
In his meeting today with Mozambique’s President Felipe Nyusi, Pope Francis is unlikely to address human rights concerns as directly as watchdog group Amnesty International
Three Moroccan jihadis who killed two young Scandinavian tourists have been sentenced to death. The Moroccan government has refused to pay compensation to the victims
Morocco’s about to send an ambassador to South Africa after angrily withdrawing its envoy 15 years ago when then President Thabo Mbeki recognized the government
A Moroccan resident with Spanish and Swiss nationality is among 19 people arrested in connection with the beheading of two Scandanavian tourists in the terror-plagued
Moroccan authorities insist a video of two young Swedish women being beheaded in the High Atlas Mountains is authentic. They’ve arrested 13 people in connection
Morocco’s back on the international terror danger list after two Scandanavian hikers had their throats slit by so-called Islamic State sympathizers last week. The kingdom’s
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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