Tony Blair (Anthony Charles Lynton Blair)

Premier Tony Blair's government likes to think it takes the lead on Africa under the influence of feisty Overseas Development Minister Clare Short...

As Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair visited West Africa Taylor's Information Minister Reginald Goodridge plaintively appealed for support such as the West gives to President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah...

At face value the omens could hardly be worse for Prime Minister Tony Blair's West Africa tour from 6-10 February...

On 5 November the two presidents met in London; Prime Minister Tony Blair saw them along with Short who pushed the peacemaking with aid as her lever...

European governments say they will lead the new agenda; British Premier Tony Blair was one of few Western politicians to insist that Africa's crises shouldn't be overlooked amid the global war...

An African mini-summit in Britain went ahead as planned on 18 September featuring Prime Minister Tony Blair Ghana's President John Kufuor Nigeria's Olusegun Obasanjo Tanzania's Benjamin Mkapa and Mozambique's Joaquim Chissano...

British Prime Minister Tony Blair after meeting Mbeki last month has quietly backed it and persuaded the G8 to give it a hearing...

Five days after the Labour Party's landslide victory in the 7 June parliamentary elections South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki arrived in London and was the first visiting head of state to congratulate Prime Minister Tony Blair in person...

And he told UK Premier Tony Blair so at length when they discussed Africa at Cahors on 9 February...

Prime Minister Tony Blair takes a personal interest: he speaks regularly to South Africa's Thabo Mbeki he asks officials for briefings on Congo-Kinshasa and his father Leo Blair has ties to Sierra Leone...