Associated Press WriterOSLO, Norway (AP) -- The United Nations and Secretary-General Kofi Annan won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for their efforts to achieve a "more peaceful world." Annan, who has ...

Children: with Nane Lagergren Annan: Nina (stepdaughter); with Titi Alakija: Kojo, Ama Education: University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana; Macalester ...

ACCRA/GENEVA (Reuters) - Former U.N. Secretary-General and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Kofi Annan died on Saturday at the age of 80, his foundation said, after decades of championing efforts to try to ...

OSLO, STOCKHOLM (dpa) – UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and South Korean Foreign Minister Han Seung-soo display Nobel Peace Prize awarded to the United Nations United Nations Secretary General Kofi ...

GENEVA - The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees today hailed the decision of the Nobel Committee to bestow this year's Peace Nobel Prize on the United Nations and its Secretary-General Kofi ...

GENEVA, 12 Oct. (UNHCR) - High Commissioner Ruud Lubbers Friday hailed the decision to award the Nobel Peace Prize to the United Nations and its Secretary General Kofi Annan. "I am proud as a member ...

Bangladeshi banker Muhammad Yunus and the bank he founded won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for their use of micro-credit loans to alleviate poverty in his home country. The United Nations' ...

ACCRA/GENEVA - Former United Nations Secretary-General and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Kofi Annan has died at the age of 80, his foundation said on Saturday. Annan, a Ghanaian national, died in ...

Was descended from tribal chiefs on both sides of his parents. Had a twin sister, Efua Atta, who died in 1991. They shared the middle name Atta, which means twin in the Ghanaian language of Akan. Was ...