Not even the waters of Africa’s greatest river can cool the heat generated by the row over the dam that Ethiopia has built across the
East Africa and the Horn are being hit by a new generation of locusts 400 times stronger than the swarms that descended last June Kenyan
Ethiopia rejects the Arab League position supporting Egypt on the Blue Nile dam. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s government lauds the Sudanese administration for not endorsing
Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia are at a standoff about the filling and operation of a dam newly completed across the Blue Nile. Talks in Washington,
South African mediation efforts in South Sudan have stalled. Deputy-president-turned-rebel leader Riek Machar has left the capital Juba without signing a deal with President Salva
by Jean-Jacques Cornish Essential for survival in Africa is being able to take the rough with the smooth. So, after British Premier Boris Johnson told
US President Donald Trump has put four more African countries in the cross hairs of his controversial travel ban. They include Nigeria, the most populous
Ministers have agreed to meet in Washington later this month to finalise agreement between Sudan and Egypt with Ethiopia which is building a dam across
Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has asked President Cyril Ramaphosa to use the presidency of the Africa Union he assumed next month to revive talks
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed will be able to brief President Cyril Ramaphosa on the failure of talks about the dam his country is building
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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