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Tuesday, August 28, 2018
Kofi Anan: Farewell To An African Peacemaker
By Adekeye Adebajo
Ghana ’s Kofi Annan, whose
death at the age of 80 was announced on Saturday, was the first black African
to serve as Secretary-General of the United Nations (UN), between 1997 and
2006. He shared the Nobel Peace Prize with the UN in 2001, though his most
noteworthy mediation was in brokering a settlement in violence-stricken Kenya in 2008, failing in Syria four
years later.
During his ten-year tenure as Secretary-General, the Ghanaian
diplomat courageously, but perhaps naïvely, championed the cause of
“humanitarian intervention.” After a steep decline in the mid-1990s,
peacekeeping increased again by 2005 to around 80,000 troops. African countries
like Sudan , the Congo , Liberia ,
Ethiopia/Eritrea, and Côte
d’Ivoire were the main beneficiaries.
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