Tunisia’s electoral commission has officially confirmed Kaïs Saïed as the country’s new president. Nabil Karoui, his opponent in last Sunday’s run-off election has conceded defeat.
Retired law professor Kaïs Saïed is set to become Tunisia’s new President. Exit polls after yesterday’s run-off election against television mogul Nabil Karoui give him
Tunisians are voting for a president to replace Beji Caid Essebsi who died last July. Contenders in the run-off-election are a conservative law professor campaigning
Tunisians go to the polls on Sunday for a run-off election to decide on the successor to Beji Caid Essebsi who died in office last
The Johannesburg-based Electoral Institute for Sustainable Democracy in Africa says Tunisia’s parliamentary elections last Sunday consolidated democracy in the country that gave birth to the
Rivals of the jailed Tunisian businessman vying for the country’s presidency are seeking his disqualification for signing a lobbying contract with a Canadian. Nabil Karoui,
The moderate Islamic Ennahda Party is looking to perform strongly in Sunday’s Tunisian Parliamentary Election. It hoping the by controlling the legislature it will overcome
It looks like Tunisian Television mogul Nabil Karoui will fight the presidential run-off election in 11 days time from a jail cell. The country’s appeal
Conservative law professor Kaïs Saïed and jailed television mogul Nabil Karoui have advanced to a run off election next month for Tunisia presidency. Both were
Tunisia’s political elite is reeling, having been rejected in the country’s second democratic election. With just under half of yesterday’s votes properly confirmed, outsiders Kaïs
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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