Leaders from the Horn of Africa grouping known as IGAD are meeting next week to urge the political actors in South Sudan to join a
Political leaders in South Sudan are concerned about the effects of the Sudanese military rule on the unity government that’s due to kick off in
South Sudanese political and religious leaders end a two-day retreat at the Vatican today ahead of entering into a unity government in Juba. The period
Morocco’s ambassador to South Africa must be told that the kingdom must end its occupation of Western Sahara and stop stealing its natural resources, says
South Sudan has begun the costly processor repairing oil well damaged in its civil war. Work done so far has increased production by 12 000
Britain’s sending about 400 soldiers to join the United Nations peacekeeping force in South Sudan. Their arrival in the next few weeks in the next
A famine has been declared in South Sudan’s Unity State. The Juba government and the United Nations say some 100 000 people are facing starvation,
Famine has been declared in parts of South Sudan where United Nations agencies warn that war and a collapsing economy have left 100 000 people
The United Nations says South Sudan’s become Africa’s worst refugee crisis and the the third largest in the world. According to the United Nations High
The Department of International Relations and Cooperation denies that former First Vice President of South Sudan, who’s in South Africa for medical treatment, is under
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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