
Uganda wants to build a dam across the Nile
A Chinese company has applied for license in Uganda to build across the Nile. This will further unsettle countries downstream still trying to agree on
A Chinese company has applied for license in Uganda to build across the Nile. This will further unsettle countries downstream still trying to agree on
Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has asked President Cyril Ramaphosa to use the presidency of the Africa Union he assumed next month to revive talks
Ethiopia’s Premier Abiy Ahmed will have talks with President Cyril Ramaphosa in Pretoria today about building deeper and broader relations between Ethiopia and South Africa.
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed will be able to brief President Cyril Ramaphosa on the failure of talks about the dam his country is building
Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia are planning to conclude a deal on access to the Nile River waters by January. They’re sitting at the table in
Emotions between Egypt and Ethiopia are hotting up over access to the Nile River. With both sides promising that a solution will negotiated, Egypt’s state-supporting
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
Deposed Sudanese President Omar Al Bashir has been moved to Khartoum’s notorious Kobar maximum security prison where he’s being held in solitary confinement. Several members
Protests continue in Sudan where demonstrations against the tripling of the bread price and food and fuel shortages have escalated to calls for the fall
It is one of the great sights on a great continent. In fact, you have not seen Africa until you have seen the confluence of
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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