The word was out through the proverbial grapevine that a high ranking British official was in town this week, was it by any chance Boris Johnson who spent his Valentine’s in Gambia before heading to Liberia followed by Ghana?

No, it wasn’t the British Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs who gained notoriety at the height of the Brexit campaign last year; it was the British Minister of State for the Commonwealth and the UN at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office Baroness Joyce Anelay.