Hain, who’s visiting South Africa, says there will be a relationship and an important one because the ties between the two countries are very close. 

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Lord Hain says Boris Johnson has never expressed any interested in Africa or South Africa. 

Johnson and his Conservative colleagues were on the wrong side of the anti-apartheid struggle.

“He won’t have that identification historically that for example Tony Blair and Gordon Brown had and a lot of their Labour colleagues, including me, had with the struggle and therefore the South Africa of today,” he says

Hain says Johnson will not be an automatic ally.

He was a very bad foreign secretary having been regarded as a bit of clown in in foreign capitals.

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However, her predecessor Luis Moreno Ocampo is  adamant African leaders are covering up war crimes.

Fatou Bensouda is a former justice minister in the Gambia.

Since becoming prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, she has been at pains to deny that the 14-year-old body is singling out African human rights violators for attention.

However, Gambia’s President Yayah Jammeh insists this exactly what has happened.

His Information Minister Sheriff Bojang asks why former British Prime Minister Tony Blair was not indicted over the Iraq war.

Gambia has been trying to get the European Union prosecuted for the deaths of Africans trying to reach its shores

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He tells a press conference following talks with President Jacob Zuma that the land grab was perfectly constitutional.

In his hour long performance to the media at the Union Buildings, President Robert Mugabe blames the hardships suffered by dispossessed white farmers on his nemesis, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair.

He says Britain and the United States had undertaken to compensate the white farmers. But they’d reneged on this.

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Mugabe says the South African media can continue to criticise him.

But he urges them to recognise the national interest and show support for their President, Jacob Zuma.

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The report by the African Governance Initiative is based on averages recorded by the country’s health ministry.

This frightening news from the body set up by former British premier Tony Blair, underlines the reality that Ebola is still a full blown crisis in West Africa.

New cases of the haemorrhagic disease that’s killed almost 5000 appear to be slowing in Liberia.

The UN special envoy reports this is a result of improved burial practises.

But in Sierra Leone, a dozen new cases a day of Ebola are recorded in the rural areas and the daily increase in the capital Freetown is nine fold.

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