Gordon Brown

Mortgaging capital investment The government wants state companies to partner with local and foreign private companies in imitation of the public-private partnerships of Britain’s ex-Prime Minister (and close friend of South Africa’s former Finance Minister Trevor Manuel) Gordon Brown...

Sharif met Premier Gordon Brown (briefly) and five other ministers...

6 billion South African arms deal and we understand it was not on the formal agenda of this week’s talks in London between South African President Jacob Zuma and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown...

First off of the blocks to congratulate Jacob Zuma on the African National Congress's win in the 22 April elections was British Prime Minister Gordon Brown...

Even the British government with one of the better records on aid commitments endured a battle between Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Finance Minister Alistair Darling over maintaining current aid commitments of £9...

Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi told British PM Gordon Brown at the 2 April Group of 20 summit in London that supporting Africa was a necessary precaution: ‘In the end the cost of violence is going to be much higher than the cost of supporting Africa...

’ South Africa’s Finance Minister Trevor Manuel who is close to British Prime Minister Gordon Brown goes further arguing that creditor countries have an obligation to back the new government...

On 23 February the government-linked Sudan Media Centre website quoted Pope Benedict XVI as telling visiting UK Premier Gordon Brown that the international community must 'focus on peace for Sudan as a priority rather than concentrating on International Criminal Court proceedings'...

Prime Minister Gordon Brown a friend of Africa in the tradition of the Scottish missionaries who founded Malawi's commercial capital Blantyre insists on 'business as usual' but the world financial crisis and the weakening pound are likely to cut several billion dollars from Britain's aid budget over the next seven years without any assistance from Mugabe or Mutharika...

They are stepping up the lobbying ahead of the G-20 summit in London on 2 April which British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is building up into a critical step in the remaking of the global economic and financial order...