Sierra Leone authorities have mounted a house-to-house search for hidden cases of Ebola in the capital Freetown. The West Africa country has suffered more than
Striking burial workers in eastern Sierra Leone have been sacked for snatching Ebola victims from a mortuary and dumping their bodies in the street. The
Ebola disease is currently spreading nine times faster in Sierra Leone than it was two months ago. The report by the African Governance Initiative is
Sierra Leone has slammed Australia’s decision not to grant visas to people from Ebola-hit countries. United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki Moon says Ebola can
The charity Save The Children says healthcare demands are outstripping supply in the fight against the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. After the first case
Ravaged by Ebola fever, most of Sierra Leone is once again on lockdown. The information gathered by the previous three-day national quarantine that ended last
At the opening of a United Nations summit, Secretary General of the world organisation Ban Ki-moon’s called on leaders to set a new course on
A Commonwealth Games athlete’s been tested for – and cleared of – Ebola fever. International fear grows about the deadly haemorrhagic disease spreading out of
Seychelles has forfeited an African Cup qualifying game rather than play Sierra Leone which at the centre of an Ebola virus outbreak that’s killed 727
Doctors Without Borders say they’re in a race against time to contain new cases of the Ebola virus being reported in Sierra Leone and Liberia.
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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