Sudan’s military junta’s scrapped existing agreements with civilian representatives and called for elections within nine months. The pro-democracy democracy have cut all talks with the
At least 35 people have died after the military junta in Sudan used live rounds to disperse pro-democracy demonstrators in Khartoum. United Nations Secretary General
Sudan’s civilian coalition has rejected the military junta’s call for snap elections. It comes a day after the army killed at least 35 pro-democracy protestors
Crack Sudanese troops have have been used to break up a protracted demonstration outside military headquarters innKhartoum. The Central Committee of Sudanese Doctors says at
Heavy gunfire rings across Khartoum this morning as security forces try to end a pro-democracy sit-in outside Sudan’s military headquarters. At least one person has
Pro-democracy demonstrators in Khartoum say there’s a growing danger of a military crackdown against their weeks long sit-in outside the Sudanese military headquarters. The country’s
The two-day general strike called by the Sudan Professionals Association to force Khartoum’s Transitional Military Council to hand over to civilian rule is holding. Shops,
Talks between the military junta in Sudan and pro-democracy demonstrators have collapsed. This disappointing development has delayed signature of transitional agreement except last night. Demonstrators
Sudan’s military and pro-democracy protestors have reached an agreement on a three-year transition leading to elections. The exact composition of a sovereign authority with a
Killings have resumed in Sudan as pro-democracy groups and the military rulers fail to agree on the composition of a transitional authority leading to elections.
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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