Clare Short

Clare Short Secretary of State for International Development has negotiated the foreign aid budget up to £3...

International Development Minister Clare Short has moved away from the keen endorsement by her predecessor Baroness Lynda Chalker of the Museveni-Kagame project and has asked awkward questions about the distribution of their countries' limited resources...

In the last two years the Labour government's front line ministers – Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown (48) Foreign Secretary Robin Cook (53) and Minister for International Development Clare Short (53) – have raised the profile of African issues...

Since the arrival of Clare Short at the Department for International Development Britain is to set up ‘mini-embassies' in countries including Mali which broke off full relations in 1965...

In Washington both Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown and International Development Minister Clare Short publicly called for the expansion of HIPC...

International Development Secretary Clare Short wants to open to relief goods the north- south railway which is the main route supplying government forces in Bahr el Ghazal and for the People's Defence Forces' rape pillage and scorched earth operations...

There is a growing rift between Secretary of State for International Development Clare Short and British-based aid agencies which have in recent years become increasingly dependent on government funds for their operations...

London has also bolstered the size of its mission to Kinshasa while International Development Minister Clare Short is keen to use Britain's six-month EU Presidency from this January to push for a more coherent EU strategy in the Great Lakes...

The new team in Whitehall – Foreign Secretary Robin Cook; Minister for International Development Clare Short; Minister for Africa Tony Lloyd; and Minister for North Africa and Middle East Derek Fatchett – has quickly committed itself to placing 'human rights at the heart' of foreign policy and also to a refusal to sell arms to governments which might use them for internal repression...

Both new Foreign Secretary Robin Cook (51) and International Development Minister (upgraded to a cabinet post) Clare Short (51) are on the Labour left...