The Catholic Church casts doubt on the provisional results of the presidential election on the Democratic Republic of Congo. It says the figures produced by
France’s Foreign Minister says official Congolese election results declaring Felix Tshisekedi victory in the Presidential election do not tally with results on the ground. Opposition
Congolese authorities have accused the Catholic Church of fomenting insurrection by saying its know who won last Sunday’s presidential election. The Kinshasa government says the
Social media has been blacked out for a second successive day as electoral official count votes cast in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s elections last
Western power have urged the Democratic Republic of Congo to restore the internet connection its cut in an attempt to prevent unofficial declarations of results
Congolese authorities have ordered telecoms providers to cut off the internet to main centre of the country as votes are counted after Sunday’s Presidential election.
There have been four election-related deaths in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The victims, in the eastern state of South Kivu, include a policeman and
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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