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Kofi Annan

May 2022

  • Mwai Kibaki in 2002, after becoming Kenya’s new president.

    Mwai Kibaki obituary

    Third president of Kenya who helped modernise the economic and political landscape of his country

July 2021

  • Edward Mortimer, right, who became speechwriter for the UN secretary general Kofi Annan in 1998, and stayed on his staff for the rest of his two terms

    Edward Mortimer obituary

  • Former UN secretary general Kofi Annan

    The United Nations’ leading role in tackling the climate emergency

December 2018

  • Kofi Annan steps down after his last speech at the UN as secretary general in 2006.

    The Observer's obituaries of 2018
    Kofi Annan remembered by Melinda Gates

    The philanthropist remembers the Nobel peace prize winner and UN secretary general

29 August 2018

  • Natalie Nougayrède

    Ditch identity politics: fight for one person’s rights at a time

    Natalie Nougayrède
    A force capable of rallying public opinion, NGOs and politicians across borders – how distant that feels in the time of Trump, writes Guardian columnist Natalie Nougayrède

19 August 2018

  • Kofi Annan at a news conference at United Nations headquarters in New York in 2001, after he and the UN were awarded the Nobel peace prize.

    Kofi Annan obituary

    UN secretary general and Nobel peace prize winner focused on the organisation’s role in fighting poverty, injustice and disease

18 August 2018

  • Former UN secretary-general comforts a crying child among a group of survivors of the Liquica massacre in East Timor in 1999.

    Kofi Annan: tributes pour in for ‘an outstanding human being’

  • Former UN secretary general Kofi Annan had also been appointed UN-Arab League’s joint special envoy to Syria while the Arab spring was morphing into the enduring civil war.

    Kofi Annan: a kind statesman and a gifted diplomat

  • We look back at three major speeches by the former UN secretary general and Nobel peace prize laureate

    1:04

    Kofi Annan's three key UN speeches - video

  • Kofi Annan, the former UN secretary general who has died at the age of 80 after a short illness, was awarded the Nobel peace prize in 2001

    0:24

    Kofi Annan is awarded the Nobel peace prize in 2001 - video

  • Kofi Annan - in pictures

  • Moment Kofi Annan was sworn in as UN secretary general in 1996 - video

  • Kofi Annan, former UN secretary general, dies

August 2017

  • Kofi Annan

    Kofi Annan says UK should allow freedom of movement after Brexit

    Former UN secretary general says it is a shame Britain is leaving the EU and criticises language used during leave campaign

May 2017

  • A detail from Michael Wolf’s shot showing one of the 3.64m people who use Shinjuku station every day.

    Red alert: Kofi Annan on the photos that capture our choking planet

    From a masked Tokyo commuter in a crush to the plastic particles killing our oceans, the former UN secretary-general hails the photographers shortlisted for tonight’s space-themed Prix Pictet prize

November 2016

  • Kofi Annan

    African exodus from ICC must be stopped, says Kofi Annan

    Crimes will go unpunished if states withdraw from international criminal court, says ex-UN secretary general

July 2016

  • Labour party conference 2003, Bournemouth. John Prescott and Tony Blair on the platform.

    John Prescott: UK broke international law by invading Iraq in 2003

    Prescott, as deputy prime minister, voted for the war – but now says Tony Blair stopped ministers fully discussing legality

January 2016

  • Former UN secretary general Kofi Annan, photographed in 2014.

    Kofi Annan: Vote, make some noise and use your power as a consumer

    Kofi Annan
    How can ordinary citizens help bring about the change we need and encourage our leaders to actually lead on issues from drugs to climate change?

October 2015

  • A resident of Tanghin-Dassouri, near Ouagadougou in central Burkina Faso, looks at a solar panel

    Solar power to light the way for Africa as low-carbon campaign launches

    Former UN chief Kofi Annan hails Energy Africa scheme as chance for continent to steer away from carbon-intensive practices of rich countries

September 2015

  • Kofi Annan.

    A world of problems: the United Nations at 70
    UN security council must be revamped or risk irrelevance, Kofi Annan warns

    Former secretary general says if the security council does not appoint new permanent members then its primacy may be challenged
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