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...
Vol 56 No 22 |
- DJIBOUTI
- BRITAIN
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...
Apart from the Chatham House speech and question-and-answer session energetically chaired by a British former High Commissioner to Nigeria Sir Richard Gozney Buhari met former Prime Ministers Gordon Brown and Tony Blair and current Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary Philip Hammond...
British former Prime Minister Tony Blair made the keynote speech at last month's Mining Indaba which the media were barred from recording...
Vol 55 No 22 |
- WEST AFRICA
A report by British ex-Premier Tony Blair's Africa Governance Initiative said on 2 November that on average in late October twelve new cases a day were being seen in the rural areas surrounding Freetown compared with 1...
Vol 55 No 12 |
- SIERRA LEONE
The dismissal casts a cloud over his presidency but may also embarrass Tony Blair...
Britain was represented by Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary William Hague as well as Kagame's erstwhile advisor former Prime Minister Tony Blair whose African Governance Initiative works in Kigali...
Vol 54 No 17 |
- SIERRA LEONE
It presents international organisations working closely with Koroma such as the Tony Blair Foundation with a dilemma...