Liberians are counting the votes from yesterday’s election expected to the first democratic transition in living memory. Still recovering from a protracted civil war, it
Africa’s first democratically elected woman president has called other compatriots to vote peacefully in today’s election to replace her. It’s unlikely that any of the
This mornings heavy downpour in Liberia had slowed voting in the country’s first democratic contest in living memory. More than two million of Liberia’s four-and-half
Presidents Jacob Zuma and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf agree that although South Africa and Liberia have historic ties of solidarity, bilateral cooperation between the countries is
Gambian president Yayha Jammeh is digging in as regional leaders try to persuade him to step down after losing an election two weeks ago. The
A visit to Banjul by West African leaders to get Gambia’s defeated president to step down did not go as planned Head of the regional
Regional leaders from West Africa are heading to Gambia to press President Yayha Jammeh to transfer power to Adama Barrow after losing an election 13
Canadian premier Justin Trudeau this week embarks on his first Africa visit since becoming premier. He’ll visit Ebola for talks with Africa’s only woman president,
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.
Web design by Web Guys