Irish Africa campaigner and rock musician Sir Bob Geldof has persuaded British Prime Minister Tony Blair to set up a commission on Africa to coincide with Britain's chairing of the Group of Eight industrial countries and its presidency of the European Union next year...
Vol 45 No 1 |
- NORTH AFRICA
Bush and especially to British Premier Tony Blair - renunciation of his plan to develop weapons of mass destruction (WMD)...
We hear a compromise was discussed during Obasanjo's visit to Harare on 17 November: either Mugabe turns up late at the Commonwealth summit in Abuja avoiding handshakes with Queen Elizabeth II or Prime Minister Tony Blair or he arrives in Abuja a few days later for the grandest of state visits...
Vol 44 No 23 |
- COMMONWEALTH
That might permit Mugabe to appear right at the end after British Premier Tony Blair has left...
Vol 44 No 22 |
- GHANA
- NIGERIA
Okonjo-Iweala has won the right to have all NNPC accounts monitored by the Finance Ministry and persuaded Obasanjo to sign the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative championed by British Premier Tony Blair...
When he attended the 'Progressive Governance Summit' near London in mid-July (one of only two African leaders present the other being South African President Thabo Mbeki) Meles repeated Ethiopia's border case to his British counterpart Tony Blair as he had done in February during his highly successful visit to the UK...
' Breaking with Europe on these issues will reinforce criticism of US unilateralism which will not greatly trouble the Bush White House particularly if some guarded support is forthcoming from British Prime Minister Tony Blair...
Vol 44 No 10 |
- RWANDA
- UGANDA
The host the then International Development Secretary Clare Short was presumably planning her resignation from Prime Minister Tony Blair's government...
British Premier Tony Blair who has met Obasanjo several times took a week to issue a congratulatory statement to him after the elections...
If this is achieved it will represent a much needed triumph for British Premier Tony Blair and his policy of constructive engagement...