Kofi Annan, the former UN secretary-general and Nobel Peace Prize winner, has been laid to rest Thursday in his home country of Ghana. Thousands of mourners gathered in the Accra International ...

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 ...

A parliamentary committee has cleared three top African lawyers as international experts in the constitutional review committee. The Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC) picked the three from a list ...

I have often been critical of the departing Kofi Annan—before he became secretary-general of the United Nations—starting with his complicity of silence, along with former president Bill Clinton, in ...

UNITED NATIONS/GENEVA (Reuters) - Former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan is stepping down as the U.N.-Arab League mediator in the 17-month-old Syria conflict at the end of the month, the United ...