The Foreign Ministry in Khartoum’s invited journalists to witness the signing of South Sudan peace deal today. It follows two days of talks in the
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
South Sudanese President Salva Kiir and his former deputy, now bitter rival Salva Kiir have sat down to their first face-to-face talks in two years.
South Sudan President and his arch foe Riek Machar have enabled in a group hug with Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed who’s mediating peace talks
President Cyril Ramaphosa’s welcomes today’s participation in South Sudanese peace talks of rebel leader and former Deputy President Riek Machar who’s been sheltering in South
Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga’s offered to mediate in face-to-face talks between South Sudanese President Salva Kiir and his former deputy Riek Machar. This effort
South Sudan peace talks in Addis Ababa have collapsed. The regional group IGAD is urging both sides to consider proposals that it says are a
A retired South African army officer who worked as a security advisor to former South Sudanese Deputy President Riek Machar has been sentenced to death
Both sides are blaming each other for renewed fighting in South Sudan in contravention of a Christmas Eve ceasefire signed last month. President Salva Kiir
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
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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