Hours after deposing President Omar Al Bashir and seizing power in the Sudan, the military council’s being urged by the United Nations to lift the
Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators have continued their sit-in outside Sudan’s army headquarters, insisting their protest will continue until President Omar Al Bashir leaves office.
Omar Al Bashir says protestors seeking to oust him as Sudan’s President are emulating the Arab Spring uprising of eight years ago. He was speaking
Amnesty International says more than 40 people have been killed by police in a month of demonstrations calling for the fall of Sudanese President Omar
The Khartoum government says it’s experiencing growing domestic protests because it’s at the centre of an international Muslim power play. It’s blaming Saudi Arabia and
President Salva Kiir has signed a peace deal with South Sudanese rebels that will come into effect on Saturday. The question is will this agreement
South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir and rebel leader Riek Machar say they hope for a breakthrough in peace talks as they meet in Khartoum. But there’s
In a ceremony that was as much a show of force as national pride, Egyptian President Abdel Fatah El Sisi has opened the new Suez
President Jacob Zuma’s come home from a summit in Russia ready to talk to the Chief Justice regarding concerns about political interference in the judiciary.
Sudanese troops reportedly surrounded South African peacekeepers in Darfur while a court was considering an urgent application in Pretoria to seize President Omar al Bashir
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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