Two secretaries-general and diplomats from the world that Kofi Annan served for nearly 45 years paid tribute to him at the United Nations Friday, but the most moving words were from his wife and son ...

The Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre (KAIPTC) has convened a high-level Regional Dialogue on Weapons and ...

Kofi A. Annan was the 7th Secretary-General of the United Nations and is the founder and chair of the Kofi Annan Foundation. He is said to have died in Switzerland around 5am on Saturday. In 2001, he ...

ACCRA, Ghana -- 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 ...

Kofi Annan passed on in the early hours of Saturday, August 18, 2018, but he will forever remain in the hearts and minds of many. I barely had any knowledge about national affairs, let alone world ...

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 ...

UNITED NATIONS -- Declaring that the United Nations was rising at last to the mission for which it was created in 1945, the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday to ...

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 ...

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