Blair Calls for Action on Crises in Africa
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair &#151; bedeviled by Iraq and in search of a more positive legacy &#151; departed Ethiopia late Thursday after calling for a concerted international action to finally address the crises afflicting Africa, the only continent to have grown poorer over the last 40 years.
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Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo has met with British Prime Minister Tony Blair for private talks focused on bilateral and regional issues including the crisis in Sudan, Blair's office said.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair was urged today to use Britainâs upcoming presidency of the G8 to broker a global agreement to cancel poor countriesâ debt and double spending on aid.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair said that despite the huge aid operation in Asia, the world must step up efforts to tackle the plight of Africa, where there is "the equivalent of a man-made preventable tsunami every week".
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair arrived in Sudan for talks with the country's leadership on how to resolve the humanitarian crisis in the country's war-torn western region of Darfur, an AFP reporter travelling with Blair said.
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Opening a meeting of the British sponsored Commission for Africa in Addis Ababa UK Prime Minister, Tony Blair, told delegates that it was &quot;time to turn international attention into international action&quot;.
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Prime Minister Gordon Brown urged Kenya's party leaders to consider some form of national unity or coalition government to end the deadly crisis gripping the east African country.
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ADDIS ABABA, Oct 7  -- British Prime Minister Tony Blair issued a clarion call Thursday for the world to help Africa free itself from poverty, disease and conflict, describing his personal crusade for the continent as &quot;the one noble cause worth
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair moved from the crisis in Sudan to addressing the roots of conflict and poverty Africa, the only continent to have grown poorer in the last quarter century.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair  called on Western countries on Wednesday to finance, train and  equip African peacekeeping troops so they could intervene to  end conflicts on the continent like the one in Sudan&#39;s Darfur.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair wants  to use a farewell trip to Africa this week to build momentum  for a rich nation summit that will focus on Africa and to push  for a world trade deal, a spokeswoman said on Tuesday.
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During his visit to the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa, Prime Minister Tony Blair has told the international community it must turn its attention towards Africa as the time for excuses is over.
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At a conference to discuss Africa's future, British Prime Minister Tony Blair pressed the international community to raise &#36;150 million to help people caught up by violence in Sudan's western Darfur region.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair  warned Sudan on Wednesday violence must end in Darfur and the  United Nations said it might not be able to cope if conditions  there fail to improve.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair is traveling to Ethiopia this week, for the British-sponsored Commission for Africa meeting to discuss the continent&#39;s pressing needs.
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Tony Blair, the British prime minister, is in Ethiopia to chair a summit he hopes will turn Africa&#39;s problems into a global priority.
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British Prime Minister leader Tony Blair launched his farewell tour of Africa in Libya on Tuesday, seeking to seal the rehabilitation of relations with Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi and build support for action on Darfur and climate change.