Tony Blair (Anthony Charles Lynton 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...

The former spokesman for British Prime Minister Tony Blair Alastair Campbell claims that Blair warned Mbeki (then Deputy President) in 1999 that 'black South Africans would not get rich through making white South Africans poor'...

British engagement in Africa and aid levels will continue to rise under Prime Minister Gordon Brown who took over from Tony Blair on 27 June government sources told Africa Confidential...

Britain's outgoing Premier Tony Blair had already upped the ante in Johannesburg in May accusing President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir of 'bombing his way to a solution' and speaking of 'bad government and violent oppression'...

Sierra Leone remains the biggest symbol and test of the Tony Blair government's Africa strategy...

Changing faces Premier Tony Blair's hand over to the new Prime Minister current Chancellor of the Exchequer (Finance Minister) Gordon Brown on 27 June looks likely to prompt calls for a thoroughgoing review of British foreign policy...

The affair drags on; UK Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary Margaret Beckett discussed it in January with Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete and UK Premier Tony Blair's wife lawyer Cherie Blair raised it with Justice Minister Mary Nagu in Dar es Salaam in February...