African and European leaders have agreed on an action plan to address the flow of migrants crossing the Mediterranean into Europe. A summit hosted by
Several African and European leaders are gathered in Paris for a summit hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron aimed at boosting efforts to curb migrant
European naval authorities say 10 000 people have crossed the Mediterranean from Africa this year seeking shelter and a better life in Europe. This is
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says South Sudan remains precariously poised on the brink of an abyss. He warned that the promises of the new state
There’s been a new turn in efforts to stop African migrants making too often lethal attempts to cross the Mediterranean Sea en route to Europe.
European foreign ministers have devised a ten-point plan to deal with the growing number of migrants leaving the North African coast and making all too
The International Organisation for Migration says a sinking boat with 300 migrants has sent a distress call from the Mediterranean. It comes as European Union
It is one of the great sights on a great continent. In fact, you have not seen Africa until you have seen the confluence of
By Jean-Jacques Cornish Days after a handshake ended a half century of US enmity with Cuba and weeks after Washington ended 36 years of daggers
Tunisia’s president says a third attacker involved in last week’s slaying of 25 people in the heart of the capital is still on the run.
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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