Algeria’s calling for a meeting of the Maghreb Arab Union that is paralyzed by Morocco’s occupation of the Western Sahara. The call from Algiers is
Morocco’s King Mohammed VI says he wants to have talks with Algeria about normalizing the relations with his North African neighbour Algeria. He says Algeria
Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Lindiwe Sisulu will today receive her outspoken Algerian counterpart Abdelkader Messahel. The meeting is designed to reinforce and broaden
President Cyril Ramaphosa’s in Mauritania for the 31st African Union summit. It theme is fighting the corruption hamstringing development, but as Jean-Jacques Cornish reports continental
Morocco’s left wonder whether its money or morality that has made it a five-times loser in its bid to host the football World Cup. Africa’s
Newly-elected African National Congress President Cyril Ramaphosa’s plate is overflowing, but that won’t stop Moroccan King Mohammed VI getting all in his face about relations
The United Nations thas agreed with the EU and AU to deploy a joint taks force to save and protect lives of migrants and refugees
The Greek owner of the bulk carrier being held in Port Elizabeth with a cargo of phosphates from the Western Sahara is expecting the vessel
South Africa and other African powers failed to block Morocco joined the African Union summit before ending its illegal occupation of the Western Sahara. That
Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma hopes of stepping down as African Union Commission chairperson depends on continental leaders choosing one of then five candidates who’ve put themselves
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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