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Peter Gerald Hain

Date of Birth: 16 February 1950
Place of Birth: Nairobi, Kenya


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War against peace

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


Mission leap

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...


Duet for donors

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...


Brave new century

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...


Going for broke

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...


Muddy

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...


Out of Africa

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...


Labour intensive

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...


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