US Secretary Of State Mike Pompeo has ended his first African safari in that role and moved on to the Middle East. President Donald Trump’s
Ethiopia has succeeded where Turkey failed in getting the president of Somalia and Somaliland talking. The meeting brokered by Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed took
PrimeMinister Abiy Ahmed has condemned religious violence in Ethiopia. He was speaking after the destruction of a number of mosques on Amhara, north of the
Washington’s chief envoy to Pretoria says the shared humanity between South and the United States is more important than issues that divide the two democracies.
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Ethiopia’s army chief Seare Mekonnen has been shot in an attempted coup. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed made the announcement on national television after gunfire was
On the opening of the world’s biggest aviation show, Ethiopian Airlines’ boss has rounded on American lawmakers who blame the March crash of a Boeing
Washington’s top envoy to Africa will visit Khartoum today for talks with military and civilian leaders. Tibor Nagy will urge the military junta to cease
Formation of a unity government in South Sudan, scheduled for next Sunday, has been delayed for six months. The regional authority IGAD insists President Salva
Black boxes from the Boeing 737 Max that crashed near Addis Ababa four days ago have arrived in Paris for analysis. This follows President Donald
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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