Former UN Secretary-General and Nobel Peace Prize winner Kofi
Annan died at age 80, his foundation confirmed Saturday, 18 August 2018.
Annan, who was born in Ghana in 1938, served as the seventh
UN Secretary-General, from 1997 to 2006, and was the first to rise from within
the ranks of the United Nations staff.
He had also been a member, since 2007, of The Elders, a
humanitarian group of a dozen leaders and activists of worldwide stature formed
by Nelson Mandela. In 2013, Annan became its chairman.
