
Lockdown hampers fight against locust swarms in East Africa
The United Food and Agriculture Organisation warns that flight restrictions imposed by the lockdown against the COVID 19 pandemic are hampering the fight against the
The United Food and Agriculture Organisation warns that flight restrictions imposed by the lockdown against the COVID 19 pandemic are hampering the fight against the
Formation of a unity government in South Sudan, scheduled for next Sunday, has been delayed for six months. The regional authority IGAD insists President Salva
Leaders from the Horn of Africa grouping known as IGAD are meeting next week to urge the political actors in South Sudan to join a
South Sudanese leaders have signed a power sharing deal designed to end a five-year civil war in Africa’s newest country. The move’s been welcomed by
The rapprochement between Ethiopia and Eritrea is wonderful news, says Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Lindiwe Sisulu. She tell a media briefing President Cyril
The Foreign Ministry in Khartoum’s invited journalists to witness the signing of South Sudan peace deal today. It follows two days of talks in the
South Sudanese President Salva Kiir and his former deputy, now bitter rival Salva Kiir have sat down to their first face-to-face talks in two years.
South Sudan peace talks in Addis Ababa have collapsed. The regional group IGAD is urging both sides to consider proposals that it says are a
South Sudan’s government and rebels will tomorrow implement their ceasefire signed after peace talks in Addis Ababa. It will allow access for humanitarian aid to
South Sudan’s leaders have been urged to seize the last chance to salvage the 2015 peace agreement and end the worsening violence that has forced
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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