There was a time, in the lives of many of us, in which we thought that we had entered an era of peace — not perfect peace, not global peace, but peace that could progressively extend to further parts ...

Family, friends and world dignitaries gathered in Ghana’s Capital Accra to pay their last respects to fallen ex-UN Chief Dr Koffi Annan. Annan’s wife, Nane Maria and children paid glowing tributes to ...

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 ...

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya must take care not to let its cross-border incursion into Somalia to secure its border from al Qaeda-linked militants turn into a drawn-out campaign, former United Nations ...