Another death at the weekend brings to 26 the number of fatalities from the latest outbreak of Ebola fever in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Medical experts who’ve arrived at ground zero for the Congo’s latest Ebola outbreak say there’s a very low risk of the deadly virus spreading. The
An Ebola outbreak’s been declared in the Democratic Republic of Congo. With 21 suspicious illnesses and 17 deaths, the World Health Organization has released $1M
The death toll from the plague has reached 165 in Madagascar with more than 2000 people infected. More than three quarters of these cases involve
The World Health Organization warns that the humanitarian crisis in the south west of the Democratic Republic of Congo resembles that in Syria and Lebanon.
The plague currently infecting Madagascar is more deadly than the black death than killed more than 200 million people in fourteen century Europe. The strain
Senegal’s President Macky Sall has called for three days of mourning for 17 women who drowned at sea. He’s called for an inquiry into the
Angola’s yellow fever outbreak, that the World Health Organisation fears poses a threat to the whole world, is putting a strain on vaccines against the
The World Health Organization warns that an outbreak of yellow fever in Angola in which hundreds have already died could be a threat to the entire
Liberia’s closed its border with Guinea following an Ebola outbreak that’s killed at least four people in the former French colony. The deaths in Guinea
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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