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,
Sierra Leone’s vice president says his country doesn’t bear any grudges against countries that closed their borders against his compatriots when the Ebola virus ravaged
A medical watchdog and activist group warns that globally agreed goals to curb the HIV epidemic by 2020 will not be met unless the HIV
The World Health Organization says the new Ebola outbreak in West Africa no longer qualifies as an international health emergency. It warns against complacency and
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Turkey’s President has ended his four-nation African safari signing multiple deals in Guinea on defence, health and energy. The Turkish leader flies home after police
The World Health Organisation says the number of Ebola cases reported in Guinea and Sierra Leone last week dropped to 18. That’s the lowest total
The World Health organisation says the world’s worst Ebola outbreak in West Africa could be over by August. International medical charities are not as optimistic.
There’s been a fresh upsurge of Ebola fever cases in West Africa just as experts are saying the corner’s been turned in fighting the deadly
The cost of fighting the world’s worst Ebola outbreak may have been escalated by the international donors’ delay in providing promised money. The New York
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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