Paul Vallely (UK Journalist)

Paul Vallely is a UK journalist who has reported on Africa and development and in 2004/5 worked as a propagandist for the New Labour government of Tony Blair.

Vallely was the The Times correspondent in Ethiopia during the famine of 1984/5. He was commended as International Reporter of the Year for his reports which Bob Geldof described as "vivid, intelligent, moving and brave".

In 2004/5 he was co-author of the report of the Commission for Africa set up by the British prime minister, Tony Blair, of which Bob Geldof was a member. Vallely ghost-wrote Geldof's autobiography, Is That It? and travelled with Bob Geldof across Africa to decide how to spend the £100m raised by Live Aid and was involved in the organisation of Live 8.

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