Gordon Brown

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...

Gordon Brown has nominated her as candidate for EU representative to the African Union headquarters in Addis Ababa...

Under new Prime Minister Gordon Brown the budget is set to rise yet further from £40 mn...

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...

Little is known about new Prime Minister Gordon Brown's intentions on foreign policy or his choice of lieutenants even though he has been the economic supremo in the British government for a decade...

Before the meeting UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown who is close to South African Finance Minister Trevor Manuel threatened to vote against De Rato's proposals unless there was a plan to boost representation for African states...

We hear that Manuel and his ally British Chancellor Gordon Brown both oppose the plan and will be pressing for a specific commitment for Africa in Singapore...

On 11 June British Chancellor Gordon Brown and other G8 Finance Ministers had negotiated a US$40 billion debt reduction deal for 18 poor countries while the United States Japan and Canada promised to double aid to Africa and the richest European Union states promised (again) to boost their aid budgets to 0...

British Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown insisted that gold sales by the IMF as a means of financing debt cancellation remain on the table; US Treasury Secretary John Snow diplomatically referred to a lack of consensus on the issue...

On debt relief the Commission's stance is consistent with Chancellor Gordon Brown's recent proposal for developed countries to help finance 100 per cent multilateral debt service cancellation for Sub-Saharan Africa with the savings to be channelled into education and health projects...

The Africa Commission comprises 17 Commissioners: Prime Minister Tony Blair; Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown; International Development Minister Hilary Benn; South Africa's Finance Minister Trevor Manuel; Tanzania's President Benjamin Mkapa; Ethiopia's Prime Minister Meles Zenawi; Former Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund France's Michel Camdessus; Vice-Chairman of China's Foreign Affairs Committee Ji Peiding; Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa Kingsley Y...