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Insiders say Odinga wants the talks to be based on the model of the negotiations with President Mwai Kibaki that followed the disputed 2007 election and were mediated by former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan...

It took the intervention of Kenya's business community some activist diplomats and UN Secretary General Kofi Annan to broker a power-sharing government after the fighting ebbed...

Kojo AnnanFormer UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan's son whose company Sutton Energy owned with Michael Wilson had its shareholding in MPH reduced to almost nothing by diluting their shares by Bolloré and Maersk...

Unlike the February 2008 National Accord between former president Mwai Kibaki and Odinga midwifed by African Union emissaries notably Kofi Annan Benjamin Mkapa and Graça Machel and chaperoned by Western diplomats the March 2018 'Handshake' was negotiated between close Kenyatta and Odinga family members gazetted by the Office of the President as an official function and foisted on the public as a fait accompli (AC Vol 59 No 6 Raila beats rivals to a new deal)...

Along with the rival campaign of Nigeria's Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (AC Vol 61 No 14 At cross purposes on world trade) Mohamed's bid for the director-general job at the WTO is reckoned to be the best chance for an African to head a major international organisation since Ghana's Kofi Annan became Secretary-General of the UN in 1997...

It is with great sadness that we report the loss of Peter da Costa journalist economist and activist on 18 August a year to the day after the death of his friend and mentor Kofi Annan...

The UNEP report which alerted the international community to the environmental emergency in Ogoni arose partly from the 1996 visit of Malaysian lawyer Param Cumaraswamy sent as Special Rapporteur by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan to investigate the aftermath of the murder of Ken Saro-Wiwa and his co-defendants...

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In an era when narrow nationalism and populism are taking on the international system the career of Kofi Annan showed where the battle lines were drawn...

After the army occupation that followed left thousands dead and the 1995 executions caused Nigeria to be suspended from the Commonwealth UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan sent Malaysian lawyer Param Cumaraswamy as his Special Rapporteur to visit Ogoni in 1996...