Kofi Annan

Kofi Atta Annan (; 8 April 1938 – 18 August 2018) was a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations (UN) from 1997 to 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 organisation founded by Nelson Mandela.Annan studied economics at Macalester College, international relations at the Graduate Institute Geneva, and management at MIT. Annan joined the UN in 1962, working for the World Health Organization's Geneva office.

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Africa Media Online

YAMOUSSOUKRO - JULY 5: UN secretary-general Kofi Annan greets officials upon his arrival at the airport for the mini-summit on Cote d'Ivoire, on July 5, 2006 in Yamoussoukro, Cote d'Ivoire. The meeting Cote d'Ivoire. (Photos Gbekide Barnus/Panapress) *** Local Caption *** YAMOUSSOUKRO - 5 JUILLET: Kofi Annan, secretaire general des Nations Unies, salue les officiels a son arrivee a l'aeroport pour le mini-sommet


Africa Media Online · 2008

A gathering of Elders takes place at Constitution Hill in 2008. Madiba (centre) stands with Kofi Annan, former Secretary-General of the United Nations, on his right, and former US President Jimmy Carter


Africa Media Online

YAMOUSSOUKRO - JULY 5: UN secretary-general Kofi Annan, president of Cote d'Ivoire Laurent Gbagbo and Pierre Schori, UN secretary general's special representative in Cote d'Ivoire pose at the airport prior


Africa Media Online

YAMOUSSOUKRO - JULY 5: UN secretary-general Kofi Annan arrives at the airport for the mini-summit on Cote d'Ivoire, on July 5, 2006 in Yamoussoukro, Cote d'Ivoire. The meeting aims at strengthening efforts Cote d'Ivoire. (Photos Gbekide Barnus/Panapress) *** Local Caption *** YAMOUSSOUKRO - 5 JUILLET: Kofi Annan, secretaire general des Nations Unies, a son arrivee a l'aeroport pour le mini-sommet sur la crise


BU: Boston University

This is the image of Ambassador Stith and Secretary-General Kofi Annan.


Africa Media Online

United Nations Secretary General kofi Annan is happy to be met by school Kids today in Johannesburg South Africa. He was in Soweto to lay a wreath of flowers at Hector Peterson memorial


The Journal of Sierra Leone Studies · 1 March 2013 English

The traditional theories concentrate on the effect of the exchange rate on the balance of payments, ignore the capital account and net income from abroad and therefore consider the current …

multifaceted approach to tackling organised crime. Since Kofi Annan announced in 2004 that ‘development and security


DW: Deutsche Welle · 8 July 2014 English

a friend in Harare. She offers consultations on how to start a business and market it. Now, the Kofi-Annan Foundation has sent the 35 year old to the European School of Management and Technology in Berlin


Moi University English

This film presents how by the end of 2008 more than a thousand Kenyans had lost their lives and half a million had lost their homes in the violence that …

African Union sent former Un Secretary General Kofi Annan to help negotiate a peaceful settlement of the the pnuodm disagreement. By the time Kofi Annan assisted by former Tanzanian President, Benjamin Kappa


Moi University English

As presented in this film, the Mungiki is a banned ethnic organization in Kenya. In 2009, a government crack-down on the organization violently disbanned Mungiki through bloodshed.

Secretary General and chief peace negotiator Kofi Annan decided to give to the International Criminal


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