Tony Blair (Anthony Charles Lynton Blair)

Another is the London School of Economics Director and former UK Financial Services Authority chief Sir Howard Davies who also served on the LIA advisory board and was Prime Minister Tony Blair's economic envoy to Libya in 2007...

That prompted British Prime Minister Tony Blair to call an emergency cabinet meeting which scrambled a British protection force for Freetown; following Africa Confidential's exposure (AC Vol 39 No 5) of the British government's cooperation with Sandline a British private military company Whitehall was under pressure to use its own armed forces to shore up the UN and Economic Community of West African States' regional forces in Sierra Leone...

It turned out to be one of the few popular military interventions that Tony Blair ever authorised...

Koroma an accountant and businessman is good at glad-handing investors and foreign visitors such as Irish rock star campaigner Bob Geldof (AC Vol 50 No 4) and his friend British former Prime Minister Tony Blair who jetted into Freetown on 28 April with a package of proposals to promote tourism...

The Irish rocker and Africa campaigner Sir Bob Geldof flew in on Timis's private jet for a three-day trip having been encouraged to visit Sierra Leone by British former Prime Minister Tony Blair...

With some help he has enticed the former British Premier Tony Blair and Irish rocker Bob Geldof to call in and strengthen his brand...

There has been a deafening silence from Western friends such as Bill Clinton and Tony Blair...

Without embarrassment Britain's ex-Premier Tony Blair and French President Nicolas Sarkozy have extolled Gadaffi's transformation into the West's new best friend seller of oil and buyer of nuclear power installations (non-military of course)...

Britain’s former Prime Minister Tony Blair landed in Kigali on 23 February on his mission to give ‘unpaid’ advice to the Rwandan government and to his ‘long standing friend’ President Paul Kagame on how to streamline government and attract investment...

Rice is due to go to Tripoli soon although President George Bush with an eye to domestic political sentiment has been much shyer than British and French leaders Tony Blair and Nicolas Sarkozy about calling on the ex-pariah Gaddafi (AC Vol 48 No 16)...

Although Britain's then Development Minister Clare Short clashed with Prime Minister Tony Blair who strongly backed BAE's Tanzania deal in cabinet a year later Short energetically defended Mkapa's purchase of a $30 mn...