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...
Vol 52 No 14 |
- GUINEA
- MINING
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...
Vol 4 (AAC) No 2 |
- ZIMBABWE
- ASIA
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...
Vol 51 No 20 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
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...
Vol 50 No 23 |
- SIERRA LEONE
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...