Malawi’s President Peter Mutharika has broken his silence on the killings of alleged bloodsuckers. The United Nations is calling for immediate investigation of a dozen
Malawi has confirmed its first cases of COVID19. This casts into doubt the central African country’s ability to organise new elections in July as ordered
Malawi’s Constitutional Court has rejected appeals by President Peter Mutharika and the Electoral Commission against the annulment of last May’s election. A re-run must now
Malawi’s Constitutonal Court has annulled last May’s Presidential election and ruled that a new poll must take place within 150 days. President Peter Mutharika will
Malawi’s High Court will rule Monday on the legitimacy of last year’s elections that gave President Peter Mutharika a second term. The decision by the
Demonstrators are taking to the streets of Malawian cities again today as the the country’s Constitutional Court considers challenges to the results of May’s election.
Announcement of results from Malawi’s election has been suspended after the High Court ordered a recount of a third of the ballot cast last Tuesday.
by Jean-Jacques Cornish The election currently underway in Malawi perfectly illustrates the generational battle in African politics. Peter Mutharika, vying for a second and final
Seven million Malawians go the polls today for the fifth elections since 1994 when the country ended 30 years of authoritarian rule. There are seven
Observers to Malawi’s sixth democratic election are predicting a high turnout. This will make for an exciting contest between President Peter Mutharika, his vice president
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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