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

When Ghanaian Kofi Annan ended his service as United Nations Secretary-General in 2006, he closed the book on four decades of service in the international body. Known for his affable, ...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Former U.N. chief Kofi Annan says U.S. President Donald Trump should reach out and talk to Iran, which by signing the nuclear deal with six major powers and re-electing President ...

On the same day that reports of violence in Syria is spilling to its neighboring countries, Kofi Annan admitted that the U.N.'s efforts to bring peace to Syria have failed. Speaking with french ...

Accra, April 8, GNA – The Global African Heritage Foundation has launched a book celebrating the legacies of the late Kofi Annan, former UN Secretary-General, for championing global peace and unity.

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 ...

World figures have been paying tribute to former UN secretary-general and Nobel laureate Kofi Annan, who has died at the age of 80. Current UN chief Antonio Guterres hailed him as "a guiding force for ...

U.S. Mission, Geneva, via Wikipedia. The death yesterday of Kofi Annan at the age of 80 will be marked with sadness around the world — including here in New York where, between 1997 and 2006, the ...

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 ...