Shocked at the official announcement that Felix Tshisekedi will be their new President, Congolese are waiting for the Catholic bishops to comment on the provisional
The Congolese Electoral Commission boss says counting of Presidential election results could be completed with 48 hours. He was speaking after a plenary meeting of
There are fears of deadly clashes in the Democratic Republic of Congo because of the delay in releasing results from the Presidential election a week
Congolese authorities have accused the Catholic Church of fomenting insurrection by saying its know who won last Sunday’s presidential election. The Kinshasa government says the
Western power have urged the Democratic Republic of Congo to restore the internet connection its cut in an attempt to prevent unofficial declarations of results
Congolese authorities have ordered telecoms providers to cut off the internet to main centre of the country as votes are counted after Sunday’s Presidential election.
The Democratic Republic of Congo’s on a knife edge after the Presidential election scheduled for tomorrow was delayed by a week. Opposition supporters say the
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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