The Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre (KAIPTC) has launched its inaugural Executive Travel Security ...

Early in 2022, Kofi Annan released "Bull in a China Shop: Evolution of a Racial Activist" (2022). The 237-page book is a brutally honest memoir by the past president of the Fairfax County National ...

Children: with Nane Lagergren Annan: Nina (stepdaughter); with Titi Alakija: Kojo, Ama Education: University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana; Macalester ...

Global and local leaders gathered in his native Ghana for an elaborate celebration of Mr. Annan, the first black African to ever lead the United Nations. By Eugenia A. Tenkorang and Megan Specia A ...

Outgoing U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan gave a speech at the Truman Library in Missouri today. It was a chance to reach out to Americans after a tough tenure plagued by scandals, wars and a ...

Former UN Secretary-General and Nobel Peace Prize winner Kofi Annan has died at age 80, his foundation confirmed Saturday. Annan, who was born in Ghana in 1938, served as the seventh UN ...

Kofi Annan, who is stepping down as secretary general of the United Nations on December 31, has been one of the organization’s “most formidable and memorable leaders,” but his decade-long tenure is ...

Scheduled for 4 -5 September this year in Accra, Ghana, the Kofi Annan Peace and Security (KAPS) Forum is a flagship annual event designed to bring together political leaders, diplomats and experts to ...

ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — The body of former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan has received a hero’s welcome upon landing at Kotoka International Airport in Ghana’s capital. President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo ...

Was descended from tribal chiefs on both sides of his parents. Had a twin sister, Efua Atta, who died in 1991. They shared the middle name Atta, which means twin in the Ghanaian language of Akan. Was ...