Two Scandanavian women have been found dead from knife wounds in the Morocco’s High Atlas Mountains. A criminal investigation has been started in the Kingdom
Talks aimed at ending Morocco’s occupation of the Western Sahara go into a second day in Geneva. Delegates are urged by UN chief Antonio Guterres
South Africa’s officially made it clear the ball’s in Morocco’s court if the kingdom wants to return an ambassador to Pretoria. They says Rabat has
Morocco’s King Mohammed VI says he wants to have talks with Algeria about normalizing the relations with his North African neighbour Algeria. He says Algeria
It’s not clear what Morocco will do with its national deported from Germany after serving a 15-year sentence for being being an associate of the
A Moroccan law criminalising sexual violence and harassment comes into force today. Women’s groups are saying it does not go far enough to address the
Of course King Mohamed VI and his Moroccan officials will say that their record-breaking five-time losing quest to host the football World Cup has
Morocco’s left wonder whether its money or morality that has made it a five-times loser in its bid to host the football World Cup. Africa’s
The chief of the Royal House of Mandela welcomes the European Court ruling that Morocco has no right to Western Sahara territorial waters. Nkosi Mandla
Britain’s gone to the European Court to test the validity of its fisheries treaty with Morocco because it includes the illegally occupied Western Sahara. An
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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