Tony Blair (Anthony Charles Lynton Blair)

Khamis Abu Minyar el Gadaffi and the deal was facilitated by British ex-Prime Minister Tony Blair...

ArcelorMittal Essar’s strongest rival dropped out of the bidding because Lakshmi Mittal’s close ties to former British Prime Minster Tony Blair irritate Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe...

Kagame's other international friends - such as UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon British ex-Prime Minister Tony Blair and United States ex-President Bill Clinton - had no such reservations about glad-handing the Rwandan leader...

Three days after the first bombing a prominent Hutu sought refuge in the British High Commission in Kigali in a stage-managed operation that embarrassed Whitehall which remains close to President Paul Kagame’s government not least through British ex-Prime Minister Tony Blair...

Lobbying from British Premier Tony Blair helped secure the Tanzania contract despite opposition from the late Foreign Secretary Robin Cook Development Minister Clare Short and the World Bank...

Dissenters claim she was promoted at the behest of Kagame's backer and British ex-Premier Tony Blair as well as for her extremely close ties to Emmanuel Ndahiro National Security Advisor and intelligence director...

Koroma needed a good story to tell the conference organised by his government Britain's Department for International Development the World Bank and British former Prime Minister Tony Blair's consultancy firm...

He invited Sierra Leoneans abroad to return home and met philanthropic financier George Soros and British former Prime Minister Tony Blair whose African Governance Initiative has nine advisors in Freetown...

Another is the London School of Economics Director and former UK Financial Services Authority chief Sir Howard Davies who also served on the LIA advisory board and was Prime Minister Tony Blair's economic envoy to Libya in 2007...

That prompted British Prime Minister Tony Blair to call an emergency cabinet meeting which scrambled a British protection force for Freetown; following Africa Confidential's exposure (AC Vol 39 No 5) of the British government's cooperation with Sandline a British private military company Whitehall was under pressure to use its own armed forces to shore up the UN and Economic Community of West African States' regional forces in Sierra Leone...

It turned out to be one of the few popular military interventions that Tony Blair ever authorised...