Tony Blair (Anthony Charles Lynton Blair)

The EU Ambassador Tim Clarke was already under fire from government media; he is a brother of Charles Clarke Home Secretary under British Premier Tony Blair who so warmly welcomed Meles into 'his' Commission for Africa...

Asmara claims that Addis Ababa is favoured because it helps Washington with its 'war on terror' while Prime Minister Meles Zenawi is a member of British Prime Minister Tony Blair's Commission for Africa (AC Vol 46 No 5)...

This came after Mwanawasa had met British Premier Tony Blair in London on 12 September and they discussed among other things support for Zambia's anti-corruption crusade...

As Africa Confidential went to press the Group of Eight (G8) summit in Gleneagles Scotland with Prime Minister Tony Blair in the chair looked as if it would make some useful promises...

Basking in the glory of securing a two-thirds cut in Nigeria's US$34 billion foreign debt and the more ambiguous achievement of being British Prime Minister Tony Blair's new best friend in Africa President Olusegun Obasanjo is being forced to take a reality check back home...

This is hugely embarrassing for British Prime Minister Tony Blair who appointed President Mkapa to the Africa Commission in the face of recurring criticism of Mkapa's purchase of a $40 mn...

The timing of the closure is particularly awkward for Prime Minister Tony Blair's 'big push in Africa'...

Another rift opened between Washington and London/Brussels when the European Union's Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson (a close political ally of British Prime Minister Tony Blair) criticised the US failure to act after the World Trade Organisation ruled its subsidies to its local cotton farmers to be illegal and damaging to developing country cotton exporters...

Frazer takes over the top Africa post two months before the critical Group of Eight (G8) summit in Gleaneagles Scotland where British Prime Minister Tony Blair hopes for US support for his plan to boost aid and investment in Africa and end discriminatory trade rules...

Mkapa has been reluctant to support peacekeeping forces in conflicts such as that in Darfur Sudan but has maintained good relations with the West through his prominent role in the Commission for Africa backed by British Premier Tony Blair...