Leaders in South Sudan have been warned to control rise in ethnic hate speech and incitement of violence against some ethnic groups which could result
Sacked South Sudanese vice president Riek Machar vows to return home after completing the medical treatment he’s currently undergoing in Johannesburg. The former rebel leader
United Nations peacekeepers failed to protect South Sudanese civilians during fighting in July. A US-based watchdog group says the blue helmets cowered under fire and
More than a million refugees have fled South Sudan’s three-year civil war, overwhelming aid agencies and creating one of the world’s worst humanitarian disasters. The
South Sudanese rebel leader Riek Machar and more than 100 of his fighters have been transported for emergency medical treatment by the United Nations. They
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says South Sudan remains precariously poised on the brink of an abyss. He warned that the promises of the new state
South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir has removed Riek Machar as first vice president. Macher has not been seen since the rival leaders’ forces clashed in
The African Union summit has backed a request for African troops with a robust mandate to reinforce U.N. peacekeepers in South Sudan. The request will
The recent flare-up of deadly violence in South Sudan is metaphor of the crises tearing the continent as leaders gather for the AU Summit in
The United Nations Security Council is seriously concerned about the failure of South Sudanese rebel leader Riek Machar to return to Juba to take up
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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