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Kofi Annan, Who Redefined the U.N., Dies at 80 Kofi Annan, a 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 left indelible stains on his record as a peacekeeper, died on Saturday. He was 80. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/18/obituaries/kofi-annan-dead.html