Tension’s mounting along the Rwanda/Uganda border which has been partially closed for a week. Uganda denies Rwandan accusations that its supporting rebels opposing President Paul
Former Burundi President Pierre Buyoya says an arrest warrant issued against him for alleged involvement in the assassination of the country’s first democratically elected Hutu
Burundian authorities are playing their cards close to their chest following the arrest of four former military officers for involvement in the 1993 assassination of
Stormy relations between Great Lakes neighbors have been dragged to new lows by Burundi President Pierre Nkurunziza charging that his Rwandan counterpart Paul Kagame wants
South Africa’s recommitted troops to the United Nations Special Intervention Brigade (FIB) in the DRC. The only blue-helmeted unit that has a mandate to operate
The Congolese army and the United Nations peacekeeping force in the DRC will launch a military offensive against the Hutu rebel group hiding out there.
Facing a Friday deadline, Rwandan Hutu rebels have started handing themselves in to authorities in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Most are still at
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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