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...
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Lobby groups such as Kofi Annan's Africa Progress Panel and the anti-corruption and environmental lobby group Global Witness reckon Glencore has pumped cash loans and shares worth over US$500 million into offshore companies controlled by Gertler...
Security experts in Accra such as Kwesi Aning of the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre argue that far better regional coordination and national awareness are required despite the lack of specific and immediate threats...
The former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan warned of the risks at the Fifth Tana Security Forum in Ethiopia on 25 April: 'If a leader doesn't want to leave office… and elections are seen as being gamed to suit a leader and he stays term after term after term the tendency may be the only way to get him out is through a coup or people taking to the streets...
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His predecessor Kofi Annan had also tried to breathe life into the peace process at the end of his mandate...
The exceptions are Kenya's cases which resulted from mediation by Kofi Annan then the UNSG and Sudan's referral by the UNSC in a resolution supported by Africa's non-permanent members on the Council (Permanent Five members China and Russia ignored Sudan's request to veto that referral)...
a year according to former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan's Africa Progress Panel...
Echoing his predecessor Kofi Annan's apology of 2004 UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said sorry for the departure of the UN troops from Rwanda just when they were most needed as the genocide was beginning...
This change of heart came as Emmanuel Kwesi Aning the forthright Director of the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre in Accra warned that government might lack the capacity to monitor and police a national strike...
Others are far more critical of her unwillingness to listen to the views of fellow South African Desmond Tutu and former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan who warn that the decisions in Addis Ababa could fatally weaken the Court...