Montreal based Semafo mining company has suspended operation in its flagship Burkina Faso operation after a terror attack on employees. Burkina President Roch Marc Baborè
Paris warns West Africa not to take for granted the deployment of French troops fighting Islamist militants. There’s no suggestion of France’s operation Burkhane being
Washington’s almost doubled its military aid to African countries fighting terrorists on the southern edge of the Sahara desert. The so called G5 have a
“The World Is Flat – A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY,” BY THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN. 13 years after publication, this remains on of the
French experts have flown into Ouagadougou to help Burkina Faso authorities investigate Friday’s attacks on the army headquarters and Paris Embassy that left 16 dead.
Washington’s ordered non essential US staff to to quit Somalia. It follows admission that US military drones have for the first time strike Islamic States
United States troops have helped Somali forces in an attack on a rebel-held village in the south of the country. This comes as US and
Following President Donald Trump’s announcement that he’s ramping up airstrikes against terrorist groups around the world, The US military says it’s conducted a drone strike
Washington’s warned Americans that there may be terrorist attacks in Europe in the run-up to the holiday season. The travel alert comes as France conducted
Days after surviving the sixth of half a dozen assassination bids against him, the governor of northern Kenya’s Mandera county describes the security situation in
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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