Tony Blair (Anthony Charles Lynton Blair)

Faced with this impasse the Ghanaians went to Cherie Blair QC the wife of former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair and her high-powered consultancy and law firm Omnia which specialises in West Africa (AC Vol 59 No 6 Deep sea intrigue)...

UK ex-prime minister Tony Blair's team which was there during Banda's regime is returning to Malawi to work with the Office of the President ' said an insider...

' The Tony Blair Institute told Africa Confidential it 'is in early stage discussions to scope support it might provide in future to the Government of President Lazarus Chakwera'...

Backing Motsepe's protestations of innocence was a monumental dossier compiled with the help of Cherie Blair QC wife of former British premier Tony Blair and the London-based business intelligence firm Alaco...

Sir Ross Cranston a retired judge and former MP and Solicitor-General under Tony Blair is set to rule 'in due course' – more likely to be days than weeks according to lawyers following proceedings – as to whether to uphold the 2017 award or to re-open the case...

Johnson has been a long-time critic of DFID set up by Tony Blair's Labour government in 1997 and the move has been expected ever since he won the election in December...

Scotland was a Labour government minister under Tony Blair and a moderate but Conservative prime minister Boris Johnson is not a fan...

Mubadala a sovereign investment fund owned by the Abu Dhabi government joined forces with the Compagnie des bauxites de Guinée (CBG) in 2012 to strike a long-term bauxite supply deal following former British Prime Minister Tony Blair's brokerage of a relationship between Guinea and Mubadala for which Blair acted as an advisor on business matters (AC Vol 53 No 12 Faultlines in the foundations)...

Omnia Strategy the specialist law firm headed by British barrister Cherie Blair QC the wife of the former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair is representing Gambia in the case...

Conakry also played host to a series of more democratically inclined old friends including Tony Blair and two former French presidents: François Hollande and Nicolas Sarkozy who had reportedly brokered the truce between Condé's government and the Israel-based minerals magnate Beny Steinmetz after a protracted battle over the unexplored iron ore reserves in Guinea's remote southeast (AC Vol 60 No 5 A surprise reunion)...

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...