Kofi Annan, the first U.N. secretary general from sub-Saharan Africa, died Saturday after a short illness. Annan, a career U.N. diplomat, served as secretary general from 1997 to 2006 and ...

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 ...

Enyimnyam (Dignity) “Once my father did something that quite shocked me.” Kofi Annan is talking. He is nestled in the back of a royal-blue Mercedes, part of a six-car motorcade flying along ...

Kofi Annan has made his final speech as UN secretary general, calling on the US not to lose sight of its core principles in its fight on terror. "No nation can make ...

But Mark Pieth, who helped to produce the report, believes the UN secretary-general failed to deal properly with a potential conflict of interest involving his son, Kojo. An independent inquiry has ...