It appears to be safari season for European leaders. German Chancellor Angela Merkel, like her British counterpart Theresa May, is on a three-nation African tour.
The UN immigration agency’s reporting a significant drop in the number of migrants crossing the Mediterranean to Europe from Africa. There were 25 338 migrants
Turkish President Recep Tayyiip Erdogan’s embarked on a tour of north and west Africa countries. Security and business will top the agenda in talks with
Deposed Malian President Amadou Toure is back home after five years in exile. He was welcomed back to the capital Bamako by hundreds of supporters.
French President Emmanuel Macron is tacking his first African safari onto attending the summit of African and European leaders Abidjan this week. He’s in Burkina
Interpol raids across north and west Africa have rescued 500 victims of human trafficking and netted 40 suspects who will be brought to court. The
The Pan African Parliament is pressing to sending independent election observation teams to African polls. African leaders, put out by critical reports issued the continental
Chad’s Moussa Faki Mahamat has been elected African Union Commission head, succeeding Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma. Mahamt beat off four other candidates, three of them. like
By Jean-Jacques Cornish The bloodless and belated departure of Yayha Jammeh after he lost an election in Gambia is an undoubted African success story. Even
The International Criminal Court has opened its annual meeting with a heartfelt appeal to three African nations preparing to quit the tribunal: Don’t go. ICC
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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