Counting’s underway after yesterday’s elections in Nigeria with both major candidates expressing confidence of victory. Voting had to be extended last night in areas where
Polls have closed in Nigeria which has held the biggest election in Africa’s history. There were shots fired in the north east and south of
The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Nigerian authorities to release of journalists and return equipment seized in raids on offices of an independent newspaper,
Three people died in a crowded Nigerian market the two seven year old girls detonated suicide bombs. No-one’s claimed responsibility for the attack that bears
Human Rights Watch has accused Nigerian soldiers and police of sexually abusing women in camps for those who have fled the insurgent group Boko Haram.
The United Nations has suspended its humanitarian assistance mission in Northeastern Nigeria following a bloody attack on a humanitarian convoy by Boko Haram terrorists. Several
Medical teams are warning of catastrophic conditions in the Northeastern Nigerian town of Bama. Graves are being dug daily to bury victims – mostly children
Nigerian terror group Boko Haram’s pledged allegiance to Islamic State. This follows a carnage that left at least 50 people dead in in the Borno
Several children are among the 68 people massacred by Boko Haram militants in the northeastern Nigerian village of Njaba. Witnesses say the children were deliberately
Chadian forces say they’ve killed hundreds of Boko Haram insurgents while taking the northeastern Nigerian town of Dikwa. A suicide bomber injured at least 34
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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