The UN Special Rapporteur on Torture is visiting Turkey this week reviewing prison condition and specifically allegations of torture this week. His report will determine
A Bill that would allow child rapists to walk free if they marry their victims has brought thousands on the streets in Turkey. Protestors says
Turkish police have arrested the editor-in-chief of one of the country’s oldest opposition newspapers. This further fuels concerns about the erosion of press freedom after
Nine Turkish Air Force jet pilots arrested and detained as coup plotters lasts July are back in their cockpits flying operations. Turkish military authorities say
Turkey’s president has declared a state of emergency for three months following Friday night’s failed army coup. The measure will allow him to rule by
The first United Nations Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul has heard that the way world powers respond to crises is broken. There have been calls for
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has told Turkey’s president that Ankara must fulfil all the European Union’s conditions, including revisions to anti-terror laws, to secure visa-free
The first UN humanitarian aid summit now underway in Turkey is an initiative first proposed by the world body’s secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, more than
The smiling face of Turkey’s President is splashed across today’s front page of the country’s largest-circulation newspaper that his authorities have taken over. Washington’s called
The African Union will deploy 100 human rights observers and 100 military monitors to check on the situation in Burundi. The announcement follows yesterday’s visit
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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