With the help of his London representative David Gifford (an associate of Margaret Thatcher's image-maker Tim Bell) Babangida wants to sway Western (and Nigerian) opinion in his favour after his role in the 12 June 1993 election cancellation...
Known as the 'Iron Lady' Johnson-Sirleaf is often compared to Britain's former Premier Margaret Thatcher...
Some militants in the African National Congress remember with bitterness that British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher had labelled the ANC as 'just another terrorist organisation' in the 1980s and wanted to take a tougher line against her son...
Ironically Penningtons were British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's family lawyers but that will do little to console Mark Thatcher who is due to face trial in South Africa...
The 25 August raid by South Africa's 'Scorpion' police squad on the Cape Town house of Mark Thatcher son of British ex-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher follows a private meeting last week with officials in Pretoria about his alleged involvement in a plot to overthrow President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo's regime in Equatorial Guinea...
A pointer here is the tortuous negotiations between British public relations guru Tim Bell (who remodelled Margaret Thatcher's image) and KANU's Biwott and Ben Sassoon...
Under Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher the UK had condemned the NIF's human rights abuses which led to the expulsion of Goulty's predecessor Peter Streams...
In four years Blair has met more African leaders than Margaret Thatcher did in 11...
Mary Banda who remains at Gender and Community Affairs is often described as 'Margaret Thatcher without the brains'...
Vol 40 No 9 |
- AFRICA
- BRITAIN
Mugabe had expected socialist solidarity from Britain's Labour government but has found its policies less sympathetic than those of the Tories Lords Carrington and Howe as Margaret Thatcher's Foreign Secretaries...