RIP: Former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan is dead

Mr. Annan is said to have died in Switzerland, Saturday morning after a short illness.

Former UN Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, is reported dead.

Mr. Annan is said to have died in Switzerland, Saturday morning after a short illness.

He was 80 years old.

Kofi Annan served as the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations from January 1997 to December 2006.

He was founder and Chairman of the Kofi Annan Foundation.

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