Tony Blair (Anthony Charles Lynton 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...

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...