Not one but two pieces of excellent medical news out of Africa this week. The Democratic Republic of Congo announces that the world’s worst measles
The medical charity Medicines Sans Frontiers says the battle to contain the world’s second largest EBOLA outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo is being
Beleagured health workers in the Democratic Republic of Congo fear a spike in violence from local communities could lead to reinfections in areas where the
More than 100 Europe-bound African migrants have drowned off the Libyan coast. European rescuers reached them after they’d spent hours in the water — too
The Ebola outbreak in the DRC is on the brink of becoming an epidemic. This warning from the World Health Organization as three patients escape
Medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières warns of a refugee crisis caused by Burundians fleeing unrest in their country into Tanzania. The charity says the
Medical teams are warning of catastrophic conditions in the Northeastern Nigerian town of Bama. Graves are being dug daily to bury victims – mostly children
Protesting against what it calls the immorality of their immigration policies, a medical charity’s refusing to take funding from the European Union or its members.
A medical activist group says nearly 300 people have died in the six-month outbreak of yellow fever in Angola and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The first United Nations Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul has heard that the way world powers respond to crises is broken. There have been calls for
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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