Female suicide bombers in Nigeria are blowing themselves up while carrying babies to avoid detection. Authorities warned the sick tactic could become a “dangerous” trend
Maintaining a diplomatic tradition lasting a quarter of a century, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has made Africa his first overseas destination in 2017. His
Marking 1 000 days since their kidnapping by Boko Haram insurgents, President Muhammadu Buhari has recommitted the Federal Government to securing the release of the
Nigerian soldiers interrogating captured Boko Haram suspects have found one of the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped by the insurgents nearly three years ago, along with her
Three girls suspected of being suicide bombers have been gunned down by civilian fighters in a northeastern Nigerian. The shooting occurred outside a bustling market
Three people died in a crowded Nigerian market the two seven year old girls detonated suicide bombs. No-one’s claimed responsibility for the attack that bears
Nigeria’s buying warplanes and helicopters from Russia, China and Pakistan. This follows the refusal of the United States and other Western powers to sell weapons
Nigeria’s government has failed to pay the country’s ex-leaders their monthly salaries and allowances since January because of a cash crisis. Government secretary Babachir Lawal
Human Rights Watch has accused Nigerian soldiers and police of sexually abusing women in camps for those who have fled the insurgent group Boko Haram.
A watchdog group says Swiss trading companies are blending and dumping dirty fuel in West Africa with toxin levels that are illegal in Europe. It
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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