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Kofi Annan's biography

 Kofi Annan's biography

Kofi Annan's biography
Kofi Annan's biography


Kofi Annan's biography, Kofi Annan was a former Secretary-
General of the United Nations. He was born in Kamasi, Ghana on April 8, 1938. His father's name was Henry Reginald and his mother's name was Victoria.
Elementary education

 His grandfather and uncle were tribal chiefs and he was raised in an elite Ghanaian family. He was educated at a Methodist boarding school from 1954 to 1957 at the Elite Amphitheater School.

 The African colony gained independence in 1957, the same year Annan graduated from the Mfansopum School as a member of the generation that witnessed the independence of his country.

Struggle and Subsequent Victory۔ He grew up thinking that not everything was possible. in 1958 at the Commissar College of Science and Technology.

And completed his undergraduate degree in economics in 1961 at McAllister College in St. Paul, Minnesota.

From 1961 to 1962, he graduated in economics from the University of Desgardine Law International in Geneva Switzerland. Kofi Annan's career with the United Nations began in 1962۔  he joined World Health as an administrative and budget officer.

 The organization in Geneva took a short break from uniting. An international government employee he worked as a director.

He visited Ghana from 1974 to 1976 and returned in 1980 to work as an assistant at the United Nation. 


Kofi Annan's biography
Kofi Annan's biography

Beginning as Secretary-General

He took over as UN Secretary-General on January 1, 1997, replacing the outgoing Secretary-General of Egypt, Botros Bullet.

In 1998, he appointed Louis Freichet, a Canadian woman, as the first Deputy Secretary-General in an effort to bring more gender equality into the UN system.

His second term as Secretary-General began on January 1, 2002.      his post was renewed, his reappointment was a sign of his immense popularity. After leaving the United Nations, he returned to Ghana, where he became actively involved with various organizations.

The Human Forum is the foundation of the United Nations. In February 2012, Young World was appointed Special Envoy of the United Nations Arab League in Syria.

His services as Secretary-General

As Secretary-General of the United Nations, he launched the Global Compact Campaign in 1999, the world's largest initiative to promote corporate social responsibility.

He took the HIV / AIDS epidemic as his personal priority and proposed the creation of global aid and health fund in April 2001.       Found A key role for the General Assembly and the Security Council in taking steps to combat terrorism In 2005, he presented a progress report on major freedoms to the UN General Assembly, in which he recommended the host.

Reforms to renew and strengthen the United Nations. In 1965, he married a Nigerian woman.

Kofi Annan's children

Kofi Annan has two children, Emma and Koho.Senere giftet han seg med Sin Lagergreen.  And he was jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize by the United Nations in 2001. And they can work better and more systematically.    

His birth name was Kofi Adana. Kofi literally means boy born on Friday. His memory interferes with life in the war.

And Peace, written with Nader, was published fluently in 2012 in French, English, and several African languages.

Outside of his impressive career, he is the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations. Compact Coffee died of burns on August 18, 2018, in Switzerland at the age of 80.

Kofi Annan said that knowledge is power, information is liberating education, the foundation of development in every society is in every family.

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