A ceasefire’s coming into effect in South Sudan. Armed forces from both government and several opposition groups express confidence it will end the conflict that’s
Western donors have frozen financial assistance to the peace process in South Sudan. The says they won’t recommit resources to the exercise and the ball
The United Nations says South Sudan’s become Africa’s worst refugee crisis and the the third largest in the world. According to the United Nations High
South Sudanese rebel leader Riek Machar and more than 100 of his fighters have been transported for emergency medical treatment by the United Nations. They
South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir has removed Riek Machar as first vice president. Macher has not been seen since the rival leaders’ forces clashed in
Hundreds have taken to the streets in Juba in a government-organized a protest against the deployment of foreign troops to secure the South Sudanese capital
A heavily-armed Ugandan military convoy has crossed into South Sudan to evacuate citizens trapped by recent fighting in the capital, Juba. Intelligence sources in Entebbe
Several countries are evacuating their citizens from South Sudan where clashes between troops loyal to the President and the Vice President have left hundreds dead
Renewed fighting’s erupted in South Sudan’s capital with forces loyal to Vice President Riek Machar saying they’ve gone back to war. The United Nations Security
The United Nations Security Council is seriously concerned about the failure of South Sudanese rebel leader Riek Machar to return to Juba to take up
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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