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World leaders past and present are honoring the memory of former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan, who died Saturday at age 80. Annan was the U.N.’s first black Secretary-General, and its ...

Former United Nations Secretary General and Nobel Peace Laureate Kofi Annnan has died aged 80. Annan passed away peacefully on Saturday 18th in Switzerland after a short illness. His wife, Nane Annan ...

Former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan died Saturday, his foundation confirmed. He was 80. The Kofi Annan Foundation announced Annan died of a "short illness," but did not specify the ailment. "Kofi ...

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Kofi Annan’s long legacy as an arbiter for reform at the UN Kofi Annan, the first black secretary-general of the United Nations and 2001 Nobel Peace Prize recipient, died Saturday at the age of 80.

Kofi Annan, the former Secretary General of the United Nations, the only black African to hold the post and the first elected from within the ranks of the organization, was laid to rest on Thursday in ...

Former Secretary-General of the United Nations Kofi Annan has died at the age of 80. Annan served as the seventh Secretary-General, for two terms between 1997 and 2006. World leaders are paying ...

1962 - Joins the United Nations as a budget officer with the World Health Organization in Geneva. 1960s-1980s - Serves with various UN agencies, including the Economic Commission for Africa, the ...

A great son of Africa and a true global leader has passed away. Kofi Annan, United Nations secretary general from 1997 to 2006 and co-recipient, with the UN, of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2001, is being ...

Kofi Annan — a small man with a grey goatee, smiling from behind his desk in New York — once recalled that his first day as United Nation's secretary-general was like his first day at school. The ...