Tony Blair

Others with stakes in Koroma’s victory include British ex-Premier Tony Blair whose Africa Governance Initiative has run a programme in government ministries (AC Vol 53 No 12 Faultlines in the foundations)...

Advised by luminaries such as George Soros and Tony Blair the government has reviewed the mining code and launched a review of mining contracts awarded by successive military-led regimes (AC Vol 53 No 13 A new battle to control the mines) & Who's who in the Guinea loan saga)...

’ The appointment this week of British ex-Premier Tony Blair as an advisor to the GRSS in tandem with his Africa Governance Initiative may not entirely restore the balance...

• President Alpha Condé who has consulted with financier George Soros and Britain’s former Prime Minister Tony Blair about ways to rebuild Guinea’s economy and bring in investment chaired a cabinet meeting last week which decided to end the loan arrangement and framework agreement with Palladino and its associates...

Although foundations run by former political leaders such as Britain’s Prime Minister Tony Blair and the United States’ President Bill Clinton have less cash at their disposal they often wield greater diplomatic influence...

Tony Blair’s Africa Governance Initiative has projects in Liberia Rwanda Sierra Leone and since last November Guinea...

The consultancy Tony Blair Associates has advised the United Arab Emirates’ investment fund the Mubadala Development Company...

After persistent reports of Blair’s advocacy on Timis’s behalf Africa Confidential put the question to the Office of Tony Blair last June and was told ‘Neither Mr...

Billionaire financier and philanthropist George Soros Britain’s former Prime Minister Tony Blair Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska and Israeli entrepreneur Beny Steinmetz have all held closed-door talks with Condé over the past year...

Blair’s personal consultancy firm Tony Blair Associates has in the past advised the United Arab Emirates’ investment fund the Mubadala Development Company which plans to invest in the Compagnie des bauxites de Guinée owned by Alcoa Rio Tinto and the Guinean government...

Asked why Britain would not take part even though EITI was originally a British idea sponsored by Premier Tony Blair in 2002 Department for International Development (DfID) press officers said that although ‘the UK is already a strong international supporter of the EITI and transparency in the extractives sector ’ it was ‘not appropriate’ for Britain to join because it was not ‘resource rich’ by the International Monetary Fund’s definition...

Its first big non-financial deal came in May 2007 when it established a joint venture with BP brokered by Britain’s outgoing Prime Minister Tony Blair advised by Sir Mark Allen the former Counter-Terrorism Director of Britain’s MI6...

Among the visitors last month were British former Prime Minister Tony Blair and a 35-strong delegation from a French business lobby the Mouvement des Entreprises de France (Medef) as well as several guests of Guinean entrepreneur Aboubacar Danfakha head of the local concern Groupe Tifa-Guinée...

Yet the enthusiasm of British International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell a former Royal Tank Regiment officer for Kagame’s rule is undiminished and former Prime Minister Tony Blair’s African Governance Initiative is still sending young British professionals to work in Rwanda’s civil service...