Nigerian forces say they have Boko Haram militants on the run. They’re rescuing hundreds of women and girls abducted and held for months, even years,
A week away from elections, Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan says his forces will beat Boko Haram within a month and drive the Islamist terrorists out
Two weeks before delayed national elections, Nigerian authorities say they’ve turned the corner in the fight against Boko Haram. Government forces have recaptured the northeastern
A regional force has recaptured the Nigerian town of Damasak. There’s fierce fighting in that the northeast of that country as West Africa neighbours –
As Boko Haram pledged allegiance to Islamic State, forces from Niger and Chad launched a ground and air offensive against the militant group in north-eastern
Six African heads of state are at meeting in the Cameroonian capital of Yaounde to fix a joint strategy for fighting Boko Haram. They’re meeting
South Africa’s hosting the midyear African Union summit. Foreign Affairs chief Maite Nkoana Mashebane says she’ll name the city next week where leaders of the
The United Nations Security Council’s urged central African countries to speed up preparations for a multinational force to fight Boko Haram. The presidential statement from
Boko Haram is breaking out of its stronghold in north eastern Nigeria and threastening neighbouring countries. Four people have died trying to prevent the kidnapping
South Africans sitting down to Christmas lunch are ranked eleventh among the booziest countries in the world. In terms of pure consumption, South Africa is
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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