Macalester College president Brian Rosenberg (left) and former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan in conversation at Macalester College on May 7, 2018. Annan graduated from Macalester in 1961.

Kofi Annan, who is stepping down as secretary general of the United Nations on December 31, has been one of the organization’s “most formidable and memorable leaders,” but his decade-long tenure is ...

Kofi Annan, the first black secretary-general of the United Nations and 2001 Nobel Peace Prize recipient, died Saturday at the age of 80. Annan served two terms as head of the U.N., where he ...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Kofi Annan left the United Nations far more committed to combating poverty, promoting equality and fighting for human rights — and until his death Saturday he was speaking out ...

The Elders today urged Zimbabweans at every level in society to uphold the democratic rights to justice and peaceful protest, and refrain from words or actions that could incite violence, drawing on ...

Kofi Annan in 2009. World Economic Forum via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA The passing of Kofi Annan, former United Nations Secretary-General and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, has been met with tributes ...

U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan is a man in search of a legacy. A legacy, however, is something you build up over time, like an edifice carefully constructed, action by action, decision by decision.

The author meeting with, from left, Julie and Harry Belafonte, Kofi Annan, and Archbishop Desmond Tutu on February 15, 2003, the day of massive global protest against the impending US invasion of Iraq ...

Kofi Annan, the first black secretary-general of the United Nations and 2001 Nobel Peace Prize recipient, died Saturday at the age of 80. Annan served two terms as head of the U.N., where he ...