In every generation we depend on a few people of supreme decency and intelligence to hold the world together. In Jewish tradition, there are at all times 36 tzadikim, righteous people, without whom the world would perish. Kofi Annan was one of the righteous people, a man of extraordinary...
Kofi Annan died in Geneva, Switzerland after a short illness. He served as the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations from January 1997 to December 2006.
Mr. Annan and the UN were the co-recipients of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize. He was the founder and chairman of the Kofi Annan...
Former United Nations Secretary-General, Kofi Annan is reported dead.
He was 80 years old.
Kofi Annan served as the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations from January 1997 to December 2006.
He is said to have died in Switzerland, Saturday morning after a short illness.
A close source to the family who confirmed...
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has won Zimbabwe's presidential election, according to the electoral commission.
With all 10 provinces declared, Mr Mnangagwa won 50.8% of votes, compared to 44.3% for opposition leader Nelson Chamisa.
Police removed opposition officials from the electoral commission stage when they rejected the results.
The chairman of Mr Chamisa's MDC...
Zimbabwe's opposition says its candidate, Nelson Chamisa, has won Monday's presidential election.
The MDC Alliance says the ruling Zanu-PF party is attempting to rig the vote to allow President Emmerson Mnangagwa to win, and the delay in releasing official results is unacceptable.
The election commission has said there has been no...
The International AIDS Conference is the largest conference on any global health issue in the world. First convened during the peak of the AIDS epidemic in 1985, it continues to provide a unique forum for the intersection of science, advocacy, and human rights. Each conference is an opportunity to...
Gunmen in South Africa have killed 11 taxi drivers in an ambush, police say.
The men from Gauteng province were travelling to Johannesburg on Saturday night when their minibus was fired on.
The victims, and four others critically injured, were returning from a colleague’s funeral in the coastal region of Kwa-Zulu...
The Chancellor of Germany, Angela Merkel, will pay a day’s working visit to Ghana in August, at the invitation of President Nana Akufo-Addo.
Mr. Christoph Retzlaff, the German Ambassador to Ghana, who announced this, said Chancellor Merkel would be accompanied by the Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development, Gerd...
Brexit Secretary David Davis, who has been leading UK negotiations to leave the EU, has resigned from government.
In his resignation letter, Mr Davis criticised the PM's Brexit plan - agreed by the cabinet on Friday - saying it would leave Parliament with "at best a weak negotiating position".
In her...