Lord Collins of Highbury

The end of the Arsenal and Bayern deals is a diplomatic win for Congo-Kinshasa's Foreign Minister Thérèse Kayikwamba Wagner who has urged the Labour government which includes fanatical Arsenal-supporters Sir Keir Starmer and former Africa Minister Lord Ray Collins to end the Rwanda connection because of Kigali's sponsorship of the M23 military in eastern Congo-K (AC Vol 66 No 4 Kinshasa cries foul on Arsenal FC & Kinshasa's Wagner takes on Kagame)...

On 15 June Minister for Africa Lord Collins of Highbury flew out to meet President Mnangagwa and key officials receiving the warmest of welcomes...

' More quietly however Wagner also met that day with Britain's Africa Minister Lord Collins of Highbury to pressure him to get his beloved Arsenal Football Club to dump what she calls its ‘blood-stained' sponsorship deal under which the ‘Visit Rwanda' logo shows on the upper sleeve of every team-member's shirt...

Asked in Britain's parliament on 26 November about the government's support for Zimbabwe's return to the Commonwealth Africa Minister Lord [Ray] Collins of Highbury said he did not share the ‘Secretariat's assessment of Zimbabwe's progress in line with the shared values and principles laid out in the Commonwealth Charter'...

The British government has vetoed the re-admission of Zimbabwe to the Commonwealth Africa Minister Lord Ray Collins confirmed in a written answer to a question about Zimbabwe's readmission by Baroness Kate Hoey in the House of Lords on 2 December...

Africa Minister Lord Collins of Highbury has already visited Seychelles Senegal Angola Ghana Ethiopia and Rwanda since Labour took power and his boss the Foreign Secretary David Lammy promised a ‘reset' with the continent during visits to Nigeria and South Africa in November...

Lord Ray Collins the new Minister for Africa is a parliamentary under-secretary of state the most junior ministerial rank and the role is unpaid...