If a computer were to design the perfect U.N. Secretary-General, he or she would look something like this: African born; European and American educated, with decades of service in the U.N. system; ...

Kofi Annan, a charismatic global diplomat and the first black African to become United Nations secretary-general who led the world body through one of its most turbulent periods, died early Saturday ...

U.S. Mission, Geneva, via Wikipedia. The death yesterday of Kofi Annan at the age of 80 will be marked with sadness around the world — including here in New York where, between 1997 and 2006, the ...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Scarred by his failure to stop Rwanda's genocide nearly two decades ago, Kofi Annan faces another bloody debacle on his watch as his mediation efforts founder in Syria.