Tony Blair (Anthony Charles Lynton Blair)

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...

Khamis Abu Minyar el Gadaffi and the deal was facilitated by British ex-Prime Minister Tony Blair...

ArcelorMittal Essar’s strongest rival dropped out of the bidding because Lakshmi Mittal’s close ties to former British Prime Minster Tony Blair irritate Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe...

Kagame's other international friends - such as UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon British ex-Prime Minister Tony Blair and United States ex-President Bill Clinton - had no such reservations about glad-handing the Rwandan leader...

Three days after the first bombing a prominent Hutu sought refuge in the British High Commission in Kigali in a stage-managed operation that embarrassed Whitehall which remains close to President Paul Kagame’s government not least through British ex-Prime Minister Tony Blair...

Lobbying from British Premier Tony Blair helped secure the Tanzania contract despite opposition from the late Foreign Secretary Robin Cook Development Minister Clare Short and the World Bank...

Dissenters claim she was promoted at the behest of Kagame's backer and British ex-Premier Tony Blair as well as for her extremely close ties to Emmanuel Ndahiro National Security Advisor and intelligence director...

Koroma needed a good story to tell the conference organised by his government Britain's Department for International Development the World Bank and British former Prime Minister Tony Blair's consultancy firm...

He invited Sierra Leoneans abroad to return home and met philanthropic financier George Soros and British former Prime Minister Tony Blair whose African Governance Initiative has nine advisors in Freetown...