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 ...

Global and local leaders gathered in his native Ghana for an elaborate celebration of Mr. Annan, the first black African to ever lead the United Nations. By Eugenia A. Tenkorang and Megan Specia A ...

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 ...

ACCRA, Ghana – United in sorrow, world leaders and international dignitaries came to Ghana to pay their last respects to the late United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan who was honored with a ...

Kofi Annan, a charismatic symbol of the United Nations who rose through its ranks to become the first black African secretary-general, and later a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, has died, his ...

Former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan speaks at the World Food Prize Symposium in Des Moines, Iowa, on Oct. 14, 2010. Annan, one of the world's most celebrated diplomats and a charismatic ...

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 ...

Quick: How would Kofi Annan act if Secretary of State Rice and President Chirac advised him to do one thing, and President Assad of Syria urged the opposite? Mr. Annan phoned the Damascus dictator ...