
France has a crowded schedule of business with the new Washington administration
Not surprisingly France’s President Emmanuel Macron was among the first world leaders to congratulate Joe Biden on winning the US Presidency. Paris and Washington have
Not surprisingly France’s President Emmanuel Macron was among the first world leaders to congratulate Joe Biden on winning the US Presidency. Paris and Washington have
The United Nations warns that because of the COVID 19 pandemic the number of people facing starvation to double. The World Food Program talks of
The United Nations has strongly condemned the growign threat of peace, security and stability in Africa. A Chinese-sponsored Presidential statement unanimously adopted by all 15
South Africa’s diplomats from the length and breadth of Africa are gathered in Pretoria to strategise on how best the country can use the chair
An emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council has followed the air strike that killed at least 47 migrants detained in Libya . UN
The military junta in Sudan admits it gave the order that led to the attacks that left 118 civilians dead in Khartoum on June 3.
Following Sudan’s suspension by the African Union for the killing of more than 100 pro-democracy demonstrators in Khartoum, Amnesty International calls for the Rapid Support
With Sudanese celebrating the end of Ramadan, the streets of Khartoum are eerily quiet. Residents are afraid of going out and facing militants who have
There’s a general call for calm after provisional results determine that Felix Tshisekedi will be the new Congolese President. But as the United Nations Security
South Africa’s appealed for calm in post-election Democratic Republic of Congo and urged the people of that country to show patience and wait for official
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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