Koffi Annan dies, Kenya feels the pain


Former United Nations Secretary-General, Kofi Annan has been reported dead.
Annan passed away in Switzerland on Saturday morning after a short illness according to sources.
Aged 80, the late born in Kumasi on April 8, 1938.
Former UN Boss Koffi Anna, Former President Mwai Kibaki and Former Prime Minister in a file photo/Courtesy. EPA
He has served in various capacities
at the UN from 1972 until he retired in 2006 after two terms at the helm of the organisation.
According to Wikipedia, Annan reformed the UN bureaucracy; worked to combat HIV, especially in Africa; and launched the UN Global Compact.
He has been criticized for not expanding the Security Council and faced calls for resignation after an investigation into the Oil-for-Food Programme.
After leaving the UN, he founded the Kofi Annan Foundation in 2007 to work on international development.


Role in Kenya
The former UN Chief marked ten years since he brokered a peace deal between retired President Mwai Kibaki and former Prime Minister Raila Odinga that ended the post-election turmoil in 2008.
Dr Annan led the Panel of Eminent African Personalities convened by the African Union in the negotiations that ended the post-election violence following the disputed December 27, 2007 elections.
The peace accord was signed between retired Mr Kibaki of Party of National Unity and Mr Odinga of the Orange Democratic Movement.
The National Accord signed on February 28, 2008, at the height of the post poll chaos, saw the birth of the Grand Coalition Government led by the two leaders.
At one point Koffi is quoated saying that the Kenyan peace deal was the hardest in his life which brought peace after the deaths of over 10,000 people.
"My role in mediating was amongst the most intensive and enduring of all my interventions," he tweeted in 2017.
The 2007/8 Post Elections Violence left  at least 600,000 people homeless and led to various leaders veing charged at the Hague based ICC.
Among them were President Uhuru Kenyatta, his Deputy William Ruto, Former Secretary to Cabinet Francis Muthaura, former national police chief Hussein Ali, radio journalist Joshua Arap Sang and former MP Henry Kosgey.
Kenya had challenged the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court, saying its own authorities will investigate and prosecute the cases on Kenyan soil. 

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