Former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan dead at 80
Former UN Secretary-General and Nobel Peace Prize winner Kofi Annan has died at age 80, his foundation confirmed Saturday. Annan, who was born in Ghana in 1938, served as the seventh UN Secretary-General, from 1997 to 2006, and was the first to rise from within the ranks of the United Nations staff. He had been […]
Tunisia’s National Dialogue Quartet Wins The Nobel Peace Prize 2015
The Nobel Peace Prize 2015 was awarded to Tunisia’s National Dialogue Quartet, the Nobel Committee announced Friday. The Nobel Peace Prize 2015 goes to the National Dialogue Quartet in recognition of “its decisive contribution to the building of a pluralistic democracy in Tunisia, in the wake of the Jasmine Revolution of 2011,” the Nobel Committee […]