Tony Blair (Anthony Charles Lynton Blair)

Mubadala a sovereign investment fund owned by the Abu Dhabi government joined forces with the Compagnie des bauxites de Guinée (CBG) in 2012 to strike a long-term bauxite supply deal following former British Prime Minister Tony Blair's brokerage of a relationship between Guinea and Mubadala for which Blair acted as an advisor on business matters (AC Vol 53 No 12 Faultlines in the foundations)...

Omnia Strategy the specialist law firm headed by British barrister Cherie Blair QC the wife of the former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair is representing Gambia in the case...

Conakry also played host to a series of more democratically inclined old friends including Tony Blair and two former French presidents: François Hollande and Nicolas Sarkozy who had reportedly brokered the truce between Condé's government and the Israel-based minerals magnate Beny Steinmetz after a protracted battle over the unexplored iron ore reserves in Guinea's remote southeast (AC Vol 60 No 5 A surprise reunion)...

Another signal comes from Lord Hain a former Minister for Africa in Britain and a stern critic of Robert Mugabe alongside then Prime Minister Tony Blair...

The case is now being heard at the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) with the Gambian government being represented by lawyers from United Kingdom-based Omnia Strategy the law firm and consultancy founded and chaired by the British barrister Cherie Booth QC who is married to Tony Blair the former British prime minister...

Her husband former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair visited Banjul at least twice in 2017 and had 'behind closed-door' meetings with President Adama Barrow reportedly advising him on issues including electricity tourism health and agriculture...

The Tony Blair Institute for Global Change (TBI) confirmed to Africa Confidential that Blair had been 'working with President Barrow and the Gambian administration following the country's historic return to democracy...

The wife of Britain's former Prime Minister Tony Blair runs the law firm Omnia Strategy which is expanding its African client base...

Saraki has retained London communications consultants Aequitas which helped Britain's Labour Party to remake its image under Tony Blair in the mid-1990s but he has to overcome not only his feud with Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the unproven perceptions of corruption and elite entitlement but also the challenge of Kwara a state too 'south' for the north and too 'north' for the south...

Never known for keeping a low profile British former Prime Minister Tony Blair has been in the news again with the launch of his Tony Blair Institute for Global Change (TBI)...

Anglo-Zimbabwean relations reached their nadir under Prime Minister Tony Blair's Labour government 15 years ago...

At his 15 December inauguration attended by 13 African heads of state there was no sign of the United States' billionaire philanthropist George Soros whose pro-accountability organisations helped him in his first term nor the British former Prime Minister Tony Blair nor even of his friend and fellow veteran of the Paris events of May 1968 the French politician Bernard Kouchner (AC Vol 52 No 8 George Soros offers some tips)...

Malado Kaba 44 an expert in macroeconomic and public finance who used to be with Tony Blair's Africa Governance Initiative...