Tunisians are today voting for the 217 members of its legislature. The polling is a week ahead of the second round of the presidential contest
Tunisians go to the polls tomorrow for a parliamentary election expected to be as orderly as the first round of the presidential contest last month.
Rivals of the jailed Tunisian businessman vying for the country’s presidency are seeking his disqualification for signing a lobbying contract with a Canadian. Nabil Karoui,
The moderate Islamic Ennahda Party is looking to perform strongly in Sunday’s Tunisian Parliamentary Election. It hoping the by controlling the legislature it will overcome
It looks like Tunisian Television mogul Nabil Karoui will fight the presidential run-off election in 11 days time from a jail cell. The country’s appeal
Tunisia’s five-and-a-half million registered voters go the polls on Sunday to elect all 217 members of the parliament. Analysts say they are as much in
Zine el Abidine Ben Ali, ousted as Tunisia’s President in the Arab Spring of 2011, has died in exile in Saudi Arabia. He was 83.
Conservative law professor Kaïs Saïed and jailed television mogul Nabil Karoui have advanced to a run off election next month for Tunisia presidency. Both were
The Electoral Institute for Sustainable Democracy in Africa has given a rousing thumbs up to Sunday’s Presidential election in Tunisia. The Johannesburg based organization shared
Yesterday’s peaceful and orderly Presidential election in Tunsia underlines that country’s democratic transition. But it has not produced a winner to succeed the late President
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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