Kofi Atta Annan

The UN will not help the Kinshasa government to impose its control; on 1 September UN Secretary General Kofi Annan said there was no need for a peace-keeping force...

United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan spoke pointedly about HIV-AIDS and the responsibilities of African leaders for ten minutes; Eyadéma spoke pointlessly for 75...

He can negotiate from strength in talks brokered by Mali's former military head of state General Amadou Toumani Touré who arrived last weekend as peace envoy of United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan...

General Amadou Toumani Touré's snap appointment as United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan's special envoy to Central African Republic (see Feature: Plot and panic) has delayed the expected announcement of his candidacy in next year's presidential poll...

Today Savimbi would poll much less than the 40 per cent attributed to him then so he is not interested in the new elections for which as Finance Minister Julio Bessa told Ibrahim Gambari advisor to United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan US$30 million has been approved...

President Benjamin Mkapa opened the seminar; others present were Salim Ahmed Salim Secretary General of the Organisation of African Unity Dmitry Titov Africa Director in the United Nations's peace-keeping department and Lakhdar Brahimi the Algerian diplomat commissioned by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan to write last year's critical report on peace-keeping reform...

Postponing rather than hoping to solve the Western Sahara problem United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan has extended yet again the life of the UN Mission to the Western Sahara (Minurso) the UN team that (for around US$4...

Meanwhile Yousif Kuwa's legacy includes an unfinished appeal to United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan for the UN to honour its pledge still unfulfilled to take food to the hungry in the Mountains...

By late January the resulting unrest led UN Secretary General Kofi Annan to describe the situation as 'explosive' urging Patassé's government to engage in constructive dialogue with the opposition...

As diplomatically as he could UN Secretary General Kofi Annan on his 2-3 December visit to Sierra Leone urged the Kabbah government to take more responsibility for ending the crippling war with the RUF...