Former UN Secretary-General and Nobel Peace Prize champ Kofi Annan has kicked the bucket at age 80, an UN organization affirmed Saturday.

Annan, who was born in Ghana in 1938, filled in as the seventh UN Secretary-General, from 1997 to 2006, and was the first to ascend from inside the positions of the United Nations staff.

He had been an individual from The Elders, a gathering of worldwide pioneers working for human rights, since it was established in 2007. In 2013, he turned into its executive.

The UN Migration Agency tweeted: "Today we grieve the departure of an extraordinary man, a pioneer, and a visionary."

Today we grieve the departure of an extraordinary man, a pioneer, and a visionary: previous @UN Secretary General @KofiAnnan.

An existence all around lived. An existence worth celebrating. pic.twitter.com/z51WTB4Y65

— IOM – UN Migration (@UNmigration) August 18, 2018

Annan was granted the Nobel Peace Prize together with the United Nations in 2001 "for their work for a superior sorted out and more tranquil world."

He was hitched with three kids.

Kofi Atta Annan,born 8 April 1938, was a Ghanaian negotiator who filled in as the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations from January 1997 to December 2006. Annan and the UN were the co-beneficiaries of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize. He was the originator and director of the Kofi Annan Foundation, and administrator of The Elders, a global association established by Nelson Mandela.

Born in Kumasi, Annan proceeded to think about financial matters at Macalester College, worldwide relations from the Graduate Institute Geneva and administration at MIT. Annan joined the UN in 1962, working for the World Health Organization's Geneva office. He proceeded to work in a few limits at the UN Headquarters including filling in as the Under-Secretary-General for peacekeeping between March 1992 and December 1996. He was selected as the Secretary-General on 13 December 1996 by the Security Council, and later affirmed by the General Assembly, making him the main office holder to be chosen from the UN staff itself. He was re-chosen for a second term in 2001, and was prevailing as Secretary-General by Ban Ki-moon on 1 January 2007.

As the Secretary-General, Annan changed the UN administration; attempted to battle HIV, particularly in Africa; and propelled the UN Global Compact. He has been censured for not extending the Security Council and confronted calls for renunciation after an examination concerning the Oil-for-Food Program. In the wake of leaving the UN, he established the Kofi Annan Foundation in 2007 to chip away at universal improvement. In 2012, Annan was the UN– Arab League Joint Special Representative for Syria, to help discover a determination to the continuous clash there. Annan quit in the wake of getting to be disappointed with the UN's absence of advance as to compromise. In September 2016, Annan was designated to lead an UN commission to examine the Rohingya emergency. Kofi Annan kicked the bucket on the morning of 18 August 2018 at a clinic in Switzerland after short sickness.

https://www.yankaba.com/2018/08/Kofi-Anan-Dies.html

Great man. RIP