Making sure to pay a courtesy call on Patricia Scotland Secretary General of the Commonwealth while he was in London to attend King Charles III's coronation Mnangagwa has to jump the same election hurdle to stand a chance of being readmitted to the body...

Johnson's only visit as prime minister to the continent was for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Summit (CHOGM) in Kigali in June where African leaders voted overwhelmingly against Britain's preferred candidate for Commonwealth secretary-general Jamaica's foreign minister Kamina Johnson Smith in favour of retaining the incumbent Patricia Scotland (Dispatches 30/6/22 Scotland wins leadership battle despite Whitehall opposition)...

With the incumbent British Baroness Patricia Scotland seeking a second four-year term this would pit the African and Caribbean regional blocs against each other...

In a last-ditch bid to remain secretary-general of the London-based Commonwealth Secretariat Dominica-born British national Baroness Patricia Scotland of Asthal claims she is being unfairly treated because of her ethnicity...

The Commonwealth observers were writing a formal assessment of the vote but also a separate paper for Secretary-General Baroness Patricia Scotland on whether Zimbabwe had successfully made its case to rejoin the organisation...

News of Gambari's trip followed a meeting between Hakainde Hichilema leader of the opposition United Party for National Development (UPND) and Baroness Patricia Scotland the Commonwealth Secretary-General in London on 30 October about political conditions in Zambia...