1. In 2001, then-UN Secretary General Kofi Annan stated that "fierce competition for fresh water may well become a source of conflict and wars in the future.
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1. In 2001, then-UN Secretary General Kofi Annan stated that "fierce competition for fresh water may well become a source of conflict and wars in the future.
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3. In 1965, Kofi Annan married Titi Alakija, a Nigerian woman from an aristocratic family.
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6. Kofi Annan became member of the Global Advisory Board of Macro Advisory Partners LLP, Risk and strategic consulting firm based in London and New York, for business, finance and government decision-makers, with some operations related to Investcorp.
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7. Kofi Annan attempted to engage the United Nations to resolve the matter, but failed.
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8. In September 2016, Kofi Annan was asked to lead the Advisory Commission on Rakhine State—an impoverished region beset by ethnic conflict and extreme sectarian violence, particularly by Myanmar's Buddhist majority against the Rohingya Muslim minority, further targeted by government forces.
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10. On 23 February 2012, Kofi Annan was appointed as the UN-Arab League envoy to Syria, in an attempt to end the civil war taking place.
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11. On 19 September 2006, Kofi Annan gave a farewell address to world leaders gathered at the UN headquarters in New York, in anticipation of his retirement on 31 December.
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16. In 1998, Kofi Annan was deeply involved in supporting the transition from military to civilian rule in Nigeria.
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18. In 2000, Kofi Annan issued a report entitled "We the peoples: the role of the United Nations in the 21st century".
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19. In March 2000, Kofi Annan appointed the Panel on United Nations Peace Operations to assess the shortcomings of the then existing system and to make specific and realistic recommendations for change.
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20. On 31 January 2006, Kofi Annan outlined his vision for a comprehensive and extensive reform of the UN in a policy speech to the United Nations Association UK.
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21. Kofi Annan recommended Security Council expansion and a host of other UN reforms.
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26. In 1962, Kofi Annan started working as a budget officer for the World Health Organization, an agency of the United Nations.
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28. In 1958, Kofi Annan began studying economics at the Kumasi College of Science and Technology, now the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology of Ghana.
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30. Kofi Annan was born in the Kofandros section of Kumasi in the Gold Coast on 8 April 1938.
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32. Kofi Annan quit after becoming frustrated with the UN's lack of progress with regard to conflict resolution.
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33. In 2012, Kofi Annan was the UN–Arab League Joint Special Representative for Syria, to help find a resolution to the ongoing conflict there.
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34. Kofi Annan joined the UN in 1962, working for the World Health Organization's Geneva office.
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