Rwandan women’s rights activist and opposition figure Diane Rwigara has been re-arrested. Police in Kigali have not confirmed this. It took them a week to
Rwandan police admit they’re holding opposition politician Diane Rwigara. A week after denying any knowledge of her whereabouts when she went missing, the police say
Rwandan police insist they’re not holding an opposition politician who’s home they raided yesterday. Diane Rwigara spoke out against President Kagame’s autocratic regime and was
Rwandans have been voting peacefully in today’s election that can have only one outcome. It’s being called a coronation for Paul Kagame who’s run the
Rwanda’s presidential election tomorrow is epxcted to be another coronation for Paul Kagame who won 93% of the poll the last time his compatriots went
It was such a bad tempered and bitter departure 32 years ago that it is hardly surprising the return, if it happens at all, will
The first two copies of the African passport have been issued at the AU summit in the Rwandan capital, Kigali. Recipient were Chad’s President Idris
Stormy relations between Great Lakes neighbors have been dragged to new lows by Burundi President Pierre Nkurunziza charging that his Rwandan counterpart Paul Kagame wants
Facing a Friday deadline, Rwandan Hutu rebels have started handing themselves in to authorities in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Most are still at
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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