Vigilantes say Boko Haram has seized control of the north-eastern Nigerian town of Damboa. Security forces dispute this and say reinforcements are being poured in.
South Africa’s military intelligence has identified human rights abuses in Nigeria’s hardline battle against Boko Haram. It’s also warning about the likelihood of increased militancy
Nigeria’s top political body’s promising to deliver good news very soon about more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped nearly three months ago. The National Council
Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan’s rushed home from the African Union summit in Equatorial Guinea following the deadly bombing in his capital Abuja on Wednesday. Today
Former Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo says some of the schoolgirls kidnapped by Islamist terrorist s two months ago may never return. He’s criticised President Goodluck
Nigerian authorities have banned protests in the capital Abuja in support of schoolgirls kidnapped in mid April by Boko Haram They’re saying the demonstrations pose
Boko Haram have bombed fans leaving a football stadium in northeast Nigeria leaving doze3ns dead. The explosion took place near a primary school where there
Several ambassadors accredited to Pretoria are asking why South Africa has had so little to say about the abduction of nearly 300 schoolgirls in Nigeria.
Nigeria’s military says it knows the location of nearly 300 schoolgirls kidnapped six weeks ago by terror group Boko Haram. The Abuja government’s reportedly stepped
At least two dozen people died yesterday when Boko Haram raided a village in northeast Nigeria. The terror group’s stepped up its deadly activities 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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