Security’s paramount in Saturday’s Nigerian elections taking place a week late. Having shunned South African and other offers of help, the independent electoral commission is
Nigeria’s main political parties will resume campaigning ahead of Saturday’s delayed election. They’ll defy the instruction of the Independent Electoral Commission that campaign should have
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The European Union added Nigeria, Saudi Arabia and Panama to its list of countries with poor controls over financing terrorism and money laundering. They’ve become
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A government-supporting state governor has warned foreign powers trying to intervene in next week’s election that they’ll leave Nigeria in body bags. Nasir El Rufai’s
The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Nigerian authorities to release of journalists and return equipment seized in raids on offices of an independent newspaper,
by Jean-Jacques Cornish Having infamously scrambled for the continent 120 years ago, Western leaders are today seeking to dance here. British Premier Theresa May twice
After their meeting in Washington last night, President Donald Trump has sent his Nigerian counterpart Muhammadu home with two stern warnings: drop the trade barriers
An international maritime report says piracy is making the Gulf Guinea on Africa’s west coast one of the most hazardous sea routes on earth. This
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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