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Kofi Annan, former UN secretary general, dies
Ex-UN chief and Nobel Peace Prize winner Kofi Annan dies aged 80
Former UN secretary general Kofi Annan has died aged 80
Kofi Annan, the United Nation’s former secretary general and a Nobel Peace Prize winner, has died on Saturday aged 80.
The Ghanian diplomat served, for two terms, as the seventh Secretary-General of the UN, from 1997 to 2006. He was the first black African to occupy such a role.
In 2001, he, together with the UN, were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for "their work for a better organised and more peaceful world".
