All eyes are on Kenya’s opposition leader Raila Odinga today after President Uhuru Kenyatta was declared winner of the re-run election Odinga abandoned a fortnight
President Uhuru Kenyatta’s been pronounced winner of last week’s re-run election, drawing 98% of the votes cast. But with a turnout of 34% there is
Fear of further violence has led Kenya’s electoral commission to postpone indefinitely today’s voting in opposition strongholds where it was blocked on Thursday. At least
Voting has been delayed until tomorrow in four Kenyan counties hit by an opposition boycott of yesterday’s re-run presidential election. At least one person was
The turnout after hours of voting in Kenya’s controversial re-run Presidential election has been much lower than in the August poll annulled by the Supreme
Kenya’s Supreme Court will rule today whether tomorrow’s re-run can take place in election. Human Rights groups have brought the 11th-hour legal action fearing violence
Western envoys have warned about growing insecurity in Kenya ahead of Thursday’s re-run election. President Uhuru Kenyatta insists the poll will go ahead and warns
Kenya’s electoral commission head Ezra Chiloba has gone on leave three days before the country’s re-run election. Another member of the commission, Roselyn Akombe has
A senior Kenyan election officials has fled to New York and resigned, saying she feels unsafe Roselyn Akombe says that as currently constituted, the Independent
Kenya’s in a state of full blown political crisis after opposition leader Raila Odinga withdrew from the court-ordered election re-run in less than two weeks.
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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