Tony Blair

Another signal comes from Lord Hain a former Minister for Africa in Britain and a stern critic of Robert Mugabe alongside then Prime Minister Tony Blair...

The case is now being heard at the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) with the Gambian government being represented by lawyers from United Kingdom-based Omnia Strategy the law firm and consultancy founded and chaired by the British barrister Cherie Booth QC who is married to Tony Blair the former British prime minister...

Her husband former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair visited Banjul at least twice in 2017 and had 'behind closed-door' meetings with President Adama Barrow reportedly advising him on issues including electricity tourism health and agriculture...

The Tony Blair Institute for Global Change (TBI) confirmed to Africa Confidential that Blair had been 'working with President Barrow and the Gambian administration following the country's historic return to democracy...

The wife of Britain's former Prime Minister Tony Blair runs the law firm Omnia Strategy which is expanding its African client base...

Saraki has retained London communications consultants Aequitas which helped Britain's Labour Party to remake its image under Tony Blair in the mid-1990s but he has to overcome not only his feud with Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the unproven perceptions of corruption and elite entitlement but also the challenge of Kwara a state too 'south' for the north and too 'north' for the south...

Never known for keeping a low profile British former Prime Minister Tony Blair has been in the news again with the launch of his Tony Blair Institute for Global Change (TBI)...

Anglo-Zimbabwean relations reached their nadir under Prime Minister Tony Blair's Labour government 15 years ago...

At his 15 December inauguration attended by 13 African heads of state there was no sign of the United States' billionaire philanthropist George Soros whose pro-accountability organisations helped him in his first term nor the British former Prime Minister Tony Blair nor even of his friend and fellow veteran of the Paris events of May 1968 the French politician Bernard Kouchner (AC Vol 52 No 8 George Soros offers some tips)...

Malado Kaba 44 an expert in macroeconomic and public finance who used to be with Tony Blair's Africa Governance Initiative...

Until very recently the Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (EITI) launched in 2002 by then British Prime Minister Tony Blair was widely seen as the gold standard for regulating mining industry relations with the countries they operate in...

Representing Guelleh in Court Lord Charles Falconer who was Lord Chancellor under Prime Minister Tony Blair argued that Boreh's allegations were 'factually irrelevant' to the dispute in hand over the Doraleh Container Terminal concessions...

In mid-February Kenyatta met British ex-Prime Minister Tony Blair and agreed to receive presidential policy-implementation advisors from Blair's African Governance Initiative a service no Kenyan remembers asking for...