Peter Gerald Hain

Peter Hain Britain's Minister for Africa dived headlong into this controversy on a visit to Angola in early July...

On 22 May Britain's Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Peter Hain called for a consumer boycott of diamonds coming from war zones...

That has failed on all counts: Britain's Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Peter Hain has said he would be surprised if Sankoh were not held to account for breaking the Lomé peace accord a view echoed among officials of President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah's government in Freetown...

Britain's Minister of State for Africa Peter Hain said in early March that 'if Kenya does not adopt this (economic recovery programme) it will sink without a trace' - and Kenyan-born Hain counts as one of the country's rare friends in high places...

The energy and political pedigree of Britain's Minister for Africa Peter Hain will help Whitehall punch above its weight this year; Hain will be trying to galvanise support from Washington and Paris to back peacemaking efforts in Angola and Sierra Leone...

Britain's new Minister of State for Africa Peter Hain was (like Leakey) born in Kenya; his trip there in October included a visit to the house where he lived as a child...

Britain's Minister of State for Africa Peter Hain told parliament on 7 December that Ukrainian pilots were flying supplies to UNITA with the connivance of regional states; he mentioned Uganda and Zambia...

Peter Hain's appointment as Britain's Minister of State for Africa is likely to push African concerns a few notches higher up the Whitehall totem pole...

Many new ministers – such as South Africa-born Peter Hain (Minister of State at the Welsh Office) and Anglo-Ghanaian Paul Boateng (Minister of State for Health) – were active in the Anti-Apartheid Movement and have close ties with the African National Congress government in South Africa...