Former UN secretary General Kofi Annan, dead at age 80

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Former UN secretary Kofi Annan, dead at age 80
    Kofi Annan former UN Secretary-General

By Mariama Faal

Kofi Annan the first black African to lead the United nations (UN),  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 terrorism, and his efforts to combat those threats and secure a more peaceful world brought him the noble peace prize.

Annan, who was burn in Ghana in 1938, served as the seventh United nations secretary general from 1997 to 2006 and was the first to rise from the ranks of the UN staff.

He had also been a number of Elders since  2007, a humanitarian group of leaders and activist of worldwide stature formed by Nelson Mandela. In 2013, Annan became it's chairman.

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