All Africa (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
The Commonwealth, Africa, and indeed the whole world are looking forward to a peaceful and orderly election process in Ghana, the chair of the Commonwealth Observer Group to the country, Baroness Amos has said.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008
The Commonwealth Observer Group (COG) to the forthcoming Presidential and Parliamentary Elections in Ghana will be led by Baroness Valerie Amos, former leader of the House of Lords in the United Kingdom, Commonwealth Secretary-General Kamalesh Sharma announced today.
Rupa Huq's home on the web (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008
Read about the furore here and watch the clip ici as Jezza demonstrates his unique brand of contemptuous BBC Oxbridge pomposity once again when interviewing the Mercury prize winning rapper for his reaction to the US election. The other interviewee is Baroness Amos. Almost as bad as Mark E Smith’s appearance on the same show when John Peel died but [...]
TV Scoop (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
OK, so I promised myself no more US election stuff, but this is too good to be true. I was out and about last night, so I missed last night's Newsnight. What I missed was Jeremy Paxman interviewing Dizzee Rascal (as well as Baroness Amos) about Obama's election and whether the UK could do the same at some point. Jeremy Paxman and Dizzee Rascal. In the same sentence, in the same programme. Slightly...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 15/10/2008
No sporting event is complete without a legacy and for England 2018 it will be the promise of work in Africa and the Caribbean.
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
Labour peer Baroness Amos is to join the Football Association's management board for the 2018 World Cup bid.
TMP (Free subscription) | 18/12/2007
Yesterday the Guardian's G2 section did a fashion profile of Baroness Lola Young of Hornsey. Unlike more high profile ethnic minority peers such as Lord Ahmed and Baroness Amos, Baroness Young is one of many ethnic minority peers we hear little about. Young was an actress during the 1970s and 1980s and went on to become Professor [...]
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 10/12/2007
Clare Short provoked fury when she accused Gordon Brown of sending Baroness Amos to the EU summit on Africa "because she is black" (your report, 8 December). I suspect she is correct.
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 08/12/2007
Gordon Brown's decision to boycott a summit meeting with Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe and send Baroness Amos instead has triggered a race row.
Labourhome (Free subscription) | 07/12/2007
The independent MP and former Labour cabinet minister, Clare Short, has accused the Prime Minister of tokenism for sending Baroness Amos to the EU/Africa summit this weekend in his place. Today Short claimed that Amos, who will be attending as the UK’s representative, is being sent because she is black. For more info, click here .
TMP (Free subscription) | 07/12/2007
The independent MP and former Labour cabinet minister, Clare Short, has accused the Prime Minister of tokenism for sending Baroness Amos to the EU/Africa summit this weekend in his place. Today Short claimed that Amos (pictured above with former President Obasanjo of Nigeria and President Kufuor of Ghana in March this year), who will be [...]
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 07/12/2007
The only justification for sending Baroness Amos to represent Britain at the controversial EU-Africa summit is that she is black, Clare Short suggested, sparking a furious row.
