Kofi Annan, Who Redefined the U.N., Dies at 80, The New York Times, 18 August 2018

Kofi Annan, the soft-spoken and patrician diplomat from Ghana who became the seventh secretary general of the United Nations, projecting himself and his organization as the world's conscience and moral arbiter despite bloody debacles that stained his record as a peacekeeper, died on Saturday in Bern, Switzerland. He was 80. Kofi Annan, Who Redefined the U.N., Dies at 80