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A Moroccan resident with Spanish and Swiss nationality is among 19 people arrested in connection with the beheading of two Scandanavian tourists in the terror-plagued
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Washington’s almost doubled its military aid to African countries fighting terrorists on the southern edge of the Sahara desert. The so called G5 have a
Deposed Malian President Amadou Toure is back home after five years in exile. He was welcomed back to the capital Bamako by hundreds of supporters.
Unless specialist equipment is found to replace the cutback in troops from the African Union peacekeeping mission in Somalia, it’s the civilians on the ground
Militiants have set off a bomb and opened fire on worshippers in a North Sinai mosque. Egyptian President Abdelfatah El Sisi as promised to respond
Egypt’s President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi has declared a three-month state of emergency after the worst attack on Christian Copts in decades. Coordinated attacks on churches
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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