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Far from using the leadup to the trip to pressure the National Islamic Front over its Darfur genocide like Kofi Annan and Colin Powell (both witnessed the suffering in Darfur) London refused until the last minute to acknowledge the visit was happening 'for security reasons' an odd concern for people visiting the former hosts of Usama bin Laden...

United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan wants to increase the strength of Monuc the UN Mission in Congo from 10 800 to 23 000 men...

Indeed after Resolution 1556 on 30 July UN Secretary General Kofi Annan's Special Representative for Sudan the Netherlands' Jan Pronk yielded what little leverage the UN had acquired by accepting Khartoum's argument that 90 not 30 days would be needed to implement UN demands...

UN Secretary General Kofi Annan wants 23 900 troops which would more than double Monuc's strength and make it one of the most expensive UN missions in history at US$1...

The Accra talks attended by 13 African leaders and United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan took the task of mediation out of the hands of France whose efforts have served only to antagonise Gbagbo and his hardliners...

Africa Confidential understands Amoako already has the political backing of President John Kufuor's government in Accra which welcomes the prospect of yet another Ghanaian running an international organisation alongside Kofi Annan (UN) and Mohammed Chambas (Economic Community of West African States)...

No visible plans to disarm militias Speaking from his high-rise office in Khartoum Foreign Minister Mustafa Osman told Africa Confidential he had seen no plans to disarm the Arab militias; 'That's being handled by the security people' but said that the Joint Implementation Committee of Sudanese and UN officials set up to implement an earlier Darfur peace plan agreed between President Omer el Beshir and UN Secretary General Kofi Annan had developed 'a roadmap' for security in Darfur...

On 31 July-1 August as Chairman of the Economic Community of West African States Kufuor played host to United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan and regional leaders who met to discuss the crisis in Côte d'Ivoire...

This public humiliation of Gbagbo in front of UN Secretary General Kofi Annan and Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo earned Bongo attacks in the rabidly nationalist Ivorian press and he threatened to pull out of Accra at which point the ex-rebel Forces Nouvelles threatened not to go either...

The get-together was also attended by the Netherlands' Cooperation Minister Agnes van Ardenne; the European Union's foreign policy chief Javier Solana; and Senegal's Ibrahima Fall representative of United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan...