Tony Blair (Anthony Charles Lynton Blair)

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...

Though a continent widely seen as the world's most marginalised Africa can still draw the attention of world leaders such as the United States' outgoing President Bill Clinton and Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair...

This month a cabinet committee under Development Minister Clare Short is to report to Prime Minister Tony Blair with proposals for a bigger British role in peacekeeping and in military and police training...

Prime Minister Tony Blair wrote to Dos Santos and got no answer...

During UK Prime Minister Tony Blair's visit to SA last year PAGAD's Chief of National Security Sallie Abader publicly threatened to make Western Cape Province ungovernable...

Before leaving for Victoria Falls Mbeki had phoned British Prime Minister Tony Blair and secured an undertaking that Britain would remain willing to contribute to a serious programme of Zimbabwean land reform...

This is despite a cabinet meeting in Downing Street last month when Prime Minister Tony Blair overruled Foreign Secretary Robin Cook's arguments for continuing to block arms export licences in particular spare parts for the Hawk jets which British Aerospace (BAe) sold President Robert Mugabe's government a decade ago...