Kofi Atta Annan

That might have been a difficult call for fellow Tanzanian and former Secretary General of the Organisation for African Unity Salim Ahmed Salim who was on the judging panel alongside ex-United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan ex-Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari Nigeria's former Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and the ex-President of Ireland Mary Robinson...

Making UN peacekeeping more effective and better value for money is the key challenge facing Ban; that is succeeding where his predecessor Kofi Annan failed...

As much as Ghana's Kofi Annan was the consummate UN insider having worked inside the international system most of his professional life Ban is the consummate UN outsider having spent his entire career as an employee and diplomat for the South Korean state...

The new Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary David Miliband and the Minister for Africa Mark Malloch Brown (straight from Kofi Annan's team at the United Nations) are also expected to visit...

Louise Fréchette: first female UN Deputy Secretary General appointed by Kofi Annan; long political career; was Permanent Representative to UN 1992-95; Deputy Defense Minister 1995-98; Associate Deputy Finance Minister...

There was a warm homecoming for the just retired United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan who arrived in Ghana last month...

Guests at the celebrations will include South Africa’s President Thabo Mbeki Nigeria’s President Obasanjo President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia and former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan as well as sundry black artists musicians politicians and athletes from North America and Europe...

With the new United Nations Secretary General South Korean diplomat Ban Ki-moon unlikely to be as committed to a settlement in the Sahara as his predecessor Kofi Annan the Saharan issue could be left to slide further...

The UN's failure to respond coherently in Somalia has also been blamed on the reluctance of outgoing Secretary General Kofi Annan to get involved and on the deficiencies of his Special Representative François Lonseny Fall a former premier of Guinea...

Outgoing UN Secretary General Kofi Annan and United States' officials claimed that this was agreed in Ethiopia on 16 November...

Instead UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has argued for Pronk to serve until his term ends in December...