BREAKING NEWS!!
Kofi Annan Is Dead
Kofi Annan, the former United Nations
Secretary Seneral, has died at the age of 80.
The UN made the announcement on Saturday.
Kofi Atta Annan 8 April 1938 – 18 August 2018) was a Ghanaian diplomat
who served as the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations, from January
1997 to December 2006. Annan and the UN were the co-recipients of the 2001
Nobel Peace Prize] He was the founder and chairman of the Kofi Annan Foundation, as well as chairman of
The Elders, an international organization founded by Nelson Mandela.
Born in Kumasi, Annan went
on to study economics at Macalester College, international relations from
the Graduate Institute Geneva and management
at MIT. Annan joined the UN in
1962, working for the World Health Organization's Geneva
office. He went on to work in several capacities at the UN Headquarters including
serving as the Under-Secretary-General
for peacekeeping between March 1992 and
December 1996. He was appointed as the Secretary-General on 13 December 1996 by
the Security Council, and later confirmed
by the General Assembly, making him the
first office holder to be elected from the UN staff itself. He was re-elected
for a second term in 2001, and was succeeded as Secretary-General by Ban
Ki-moon on 1 January 2007.
As the Secretary-General, Annan reformed the UN
bureaucracy; worked to combat HIV, especially in Africa; and launched the UN Global Compact. He was criticized
for not expanding the Security Council and faced calls for resignation after an
investigation into the Oil-for-Food Programme.[5] After
leaving the UN, he founded the Kofi Annan Foundation in 2007 to work on international development. In 2012, Annan
was the UN–Arab League Joint Special Representative for
Syria, to help
find a resolution to the ongoing
conflict there.[6][7]
Annan quit after becoming frustrated with the UN's lack of progress with regard
to conflict resolution.[8][9]
In September 2016, Annan was appointed to lead a UN commission to investigate
the Rohingya crisis.[10]
Kofi Annan died on the morning of 18 August 2018 at a hospital in Switzerland
following a short illness.
MAY HIS SOUL RESTIN PEACE
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