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Kofi Annan, Former UN Secretary-General, Dies at 80

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2017-05-22 15:36:38 epa05981559 Former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan speaks at the 'Wisdom Wanted - CMI and the Elders' seminar in Helsinki, Finland, 22 May 2017. Finish NGO Crisis Management Initiative (CMI) hosted a seminar to discuss ethical leadership and political courage in today's world. EPA/KIMMO BRANDT

Former United Nations, Secretary General, Kofi Annan, has died at 80. He was reported to have died in Switzerland after a short illness.

Kofi Atta Annan was a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations from January 1997 to December 2006.

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