What Blair's commission wants for Africa
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair's personal organisation to spearhead development activities in Africa issued a call on Thursday for massive international cooperation to assist the continent.
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UK Prime Minister Tony Blair called for the European Union to develop the capability to deploy troops to Africa within 10 days by next year, part of plans to fight poverty, disease and war in the region.
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Nelson Mandela hailed Tony Blair on Thursday as "very good friend" to Africa for the priority he has given the continent, while the outgoing British prime minister called on rich countries to fulfill aid pledges to the region.
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TONY Blair will today deliver an ultimatum to warlords in Sudan as he visits the conflict-ridden African country. In talks in Khartoum he will tell the Sudanese government they need to do more to stop the fighting in Darfur which has claimed 50,000 lives.
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Irish rock star Bob Geldof ( news ) has acknowledged that solutions to Africa's poverty, disease and conflict elude a commission set up by British Prime Minister Tony Blair ( news - web sites ) to craft ways of ...
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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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ADDIS ABABA: British Prime Minister Tony Blair is to say on Thursday that the time for excuses on Africa is over as he chairs a meeting in Ethiopia he hopes will turn the continentâs problems into a global priority.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair's personal organisation to spearhead development activities in Africa issued a call for massive international cooperation to assist the continent.
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LONDON, Sept. 16 -- British Prime Minister Tony Blair said Saturday that he would propose an incentive package for Sudan as part of an initiative to get U.N. peacekeepers on the ground in the war-torn region of Darfur and end the crisis there.
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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 said   on Saturday he would propose an incentive package for Sudan as   part of a new initiative to end the crisis in war-torn Darfur   and get U.N. peacekeeping troops on the ground.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair has arrived back in Britain after a three-day trip to Africa, Downing Street has said. Mr Blair attended the second meeting of his Commission for Africa in Ethiopia where he vowed
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Gordon Brown has declared that the creation of a &quot;Marshall Plan for Africa&quot; is at the heart of the government&#39;s agenda for its presidency of the Group of Eight in 2005, seeking
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair on Thursday urged rich nations to keep their promises of financial aid to Africa, saying failure to do so could threaten the continent's march toward prosperity and democracy.
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The world&#39;s richest nations need to show greater commitment towards Africa, British Prime Minister Tony Blair said Thursday, amid concern that pledges on aid and development were falling short.
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At a conference to discuss Africa&#39;s future, British Prime Minister Tony Blair pressed the international community to raise $150 million to help people caught up by violence in Sudan&#39;s western Darfur region.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair makes a farewell trip to Africa this week, after using his decade in power to try to rally the world's richest countries to help ease the plight of the world's poorest.