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

As Secretary-General Annan prepares to leave his post at the United Nations, a mystery is surfacing surrounding his apartment on Roosevelt Island, subsidized by New York taxpayers, which is still in ...

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 ...

Kofi Annan, the first black African to lead the United Nations, has died at age 80. He served as Secretary-General at a time when worries about the Cold War were replaced by threats of global ...

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 ...

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 ...

Marriages: Nane (Lagergren) Annan (1984-present); Titi Alakija (1965-1983, divorced) Children: with Nane Lagergren Annan: Nina (stepdaughter); with Titi Alakija: Kojo, Ama Education: University of ...

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 ...