In every generation we depend on a few people of supreme decency and intelligence to hold the world together. In Jewish tradition, there are at all times 36 tzadikim, righteous people, without whom ...

The author meeting with, from left, Julie and Harry Belafonte, Kofi Annan, and Archbishop Desmond Tutu on February 15, 2003, the day of massive global protest against the impending US invasion of Iraq ...

A great son of Africa and a true global leader has passed away. Kofi Annan, United Nations secretary general from 1997 to 2006 and co-recipient, with the UN, of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2001, is being ...

When former Secretary-General Kofi Annan completed his 10-year-term at the head of the Organization, he left behind 1,200 boxes of records – a literal flood of memos, letters, and handwritten notes.

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During his ten years as Secretary-General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan was often spoken of as a figure of preternatural calm. He appeared, even to those who worked most closely with him, to be a ...

While saying they could not confirm an allegation by a former member of Tony Blair’s Cabinet that British intelligence bugged U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s office, veterans of the diplomacy wars ...

I have a special memory of former UN Secretary, Kofi Annan, who died earlier this month. In our college days, we competed in the Minnesota College Oratory Contest, he being from Macalester and I from ...

Kofi Annan, who rose through the ranks of the United Nations to become its first African-American secretary-general and one of the world's most celebrated diplomats, died Saturday. He was 80. Annan ...

Former Secretary-General of the United Nations Kofi Annan has died at the age of 80. Annan served as the seventh Secretary-General, for two terms between 1997 and 2006. World leaders are paying ...