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Gordon Brown

Date of Birth: 20 February 1951
Place of Birth: Giffnock, Scotland


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Wasteful wars, foreign friends

Unsolicited bids Offering military assistance to a country that did not request it is extremely bad manners responded a seasoned Nigerian analyst after French President Nicolas Sarkozy and British Premier Gordon Brown offered to send their troops to the Delta to stop violence and rampant oil theft...


Coalition under strain

Odinga having given his imprimatur to the coalition has launched an international charm offensive to popularise power-sharing as the solution to Africa's chronic leadership crises most recently during a meeting with Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown...


Brand new Zuma washes whiter

That is partly what earned him an hour's meeting with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on 23 April and allowed them to emerge from the meeting with a joint call to end the post-election violence in Zimbabwe and the release of the election results as soon as possible...


Oddly normal II

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown's offer - on Global Darfur Day (13 April) and after a visit to Downing Street by United Nations Peace Ambassador George Clooney - to host talks on Darfur has prompted speculation about British plans for 'normalisation'...


The vultures gather

Gordon Brown then Britain's Finance Minister and now its Prime Minister has regularly lamented the activities of funds 'which buy up the debts of poor nations cheaply when it is about to be written off and sue for the full value of the debt plus interest'...


Bring in the money

On a trip this week to meet British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and the Prince of Wales the new President of one of the world's least developed countries Ernest Bai Koroma bagged £36 million (US$71...


Trade: Choosing China

When Premier Wen Jiabao met Prime Minister Gordon Brown in September they discussed Africa without reaching any new accords...


Not quite indispensable

One price it paid was the admission of Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe - even though that meant that Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown would boycott the summit in protest at the temporary lifting of the EU's visa ban on Mugabe...


Mnangagwa momentum

Buoyed by his appearance at the Euro-Africa summit in Portugal and his claimed victory over British Prime Minister Gordon Brown who boycotted it Mugabe will try to push Mnangagwa up the party pecking order at the Congress...


Friendly in Kampala

Yet the President did not appear to have made a formal report on his talks although he had bilateral discussions with notably British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh...


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