Germany’s Interior Minister says African migrants rescued in the Mediterranean should be sent back home rather than taken on to Europe. He says this is
Gambia’s become the third African country to announce it’s leaving the International Criminal Court. It accuses the Hague-based body of ignoring the war crimes of
Elsewhere on continent, Africa correspondent Jean-Jacques Cornish reports A seven year old girl has been killed by a stone throwing elephant. She’d been lifted onto
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.
The European Commission’s presented plans linking trade and investment perks for African countries to their efforts in reducing migration to Europe. Morally and practically it’s
Libyan authorities warn they have not got the resources to stop the growing flood of migrants using their country launching dangerous bids to reach Europe.
African Union Commission head Nosazana Dlamini Zuma has urged foreign ministers of the continent to formulate practical solutions to curbing xenophobia and the often deadly
by Jean-Jacques Cornish Xenophobia is gripping Africa in a north-south pincer movement with leaders hamstrung on dealing with it honestly. The brutal attacks on foreigners
European leaders have resolved at their emergency summit on people trafficking to triple funding for the search and rescue of migrants at risk of drowning
European leaders are gathered at an emergency summit in Brussels dealing with human trafficking. They’re under pressure to respond more effectively to the 2 000
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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