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Ex-UN chief Kofi Annan is dead

Kofi Annan with Mwai Kibaki and Raila Odinga in 2008 during the signing of the peace accord. [File, Standard]

Former United Nations soft-spoken and patrician Secretary-General from Ghana, Kofi Annan has died.

The ex-UN boss who won the Nobel Peace Prize for humanitarian work, died on Saturday aged 80.

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