Tony Blair (Anthony Charles Lynton Blair)

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...

At the launch of the Commission for Africa report on 11 March a week after Africa Confidential published an exclusive report on its main findings British Prime Minister Tony Blair insisted that he was prepared to change policy to meet the report's recommendations...

Launched by British Prime Minister Tony Blair at the Earth Summit in South Africa in September 2002 EITI has finally come up with guidelines detailing the obligations of companies and countries signing up...