The United Kingdom’s Former Prime Minister, Rt. Hon Tony Blair is this afternoon interacting with President Akufo-Addo.

Mr. Blair is delivering a speech on ‘Governance and Development in Africa’ on the invitation of the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA)
Rt. Hon. Tony Blair served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland for ten years.

As Prime Minister, he made Africa a top priority by putting the continent on the G8 Agenda for the first time at the Gleneagles Summit in 2005.

Hon. Tony Blair also led the negotiations that subsequently doubled aid to Africa and dropped the debt for its poorest countries.

Since leaving office he has maintained his commitment to Africa by setting up the Africa Governance Initiative (AGI) to primarily work with African leaders to support effective government across the continent. AGI strongly affirms that, achieving effective government will drastically change the lives of African citizens.

This is part of the IEA’s efforts to propagate the agenda of good governance and democracy in Ghana. The first debate being organized by the institute in 2017 will be held at Amb. Birgit Storgaard Dialogue Centre, IEA at 3:30pm