Annan urges Kenya's leaders to resolve differences

2010-02-22T08:44:59Z

<div><p>A panel chaired by former UN chief Kofi Annan urged Kenya's feuding leaders Thursday to resolve their differences swiftly to save their fragile government.</p><p>It called on President Mwai Kibaki and

Calling Kofi Annan: Kenyan rift intensifies

2010-02-22T09:27:47Z

<div id="subtitle">Kofi Annan asked to help Kenya again as dispute between prime minister, president intensifies</div><div><p>Kenya's prime minister said Monday that he wants former U.N. chief Kofi Annan to mediate a dispute with the president that is threatening a power-sharing agreement ...

Annan sees progress in Kenya

2010-02-23T18:59:08Z

<div><p>Former UN chief Kofi Annan, the chief mediator in Kenya's post-election violence, said Tuesday the east African nation's leaders had recently made progress in furthering the reform process.</p><p>Speaking after meeting with Presiden...

Annan: Pressure has seen Kenya implement reforms

2010-02-23T19:43:58Z

<div id="subtitle">Annan says local and foreign pressure has pushed Kenyan gov't to act on reforms in past 2 mths</div><div><p>Former U.N. chief Kofi Annan on Tuesday praised Kenya's government for acting on reforms necessary to avoid a repeat of the bloodshed that followed the disputed 20...

Kenya Election Violence

2009-12-08T10:00:51Z

Former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan, right and Graca Machel, wife of former South African president Nelson Mandela, speak to journalists in Nairobi, Kenya, Tuesday, Dec....

Annan in Kenya for talks on post-poll unrest reforms

2010-02-23T21:52:42Z

<div><p>Former UN chief Kofi Annan, who mediated an end to Kenya's 2008 post-election violence, arrived in the country Wednesday to assess reforms agreed on to avert a repeat of the deadly unrest.</p><p>Annan will first chair meetings of his Alliance for Green Revolution in Former UN chief Kofi Annan, speaks to journalists in Nairobi Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2009, after meeting President Mwai Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga on the progress of the Kenyan coalition government is making in implementing ...

'Serious risk' of fresh Kenya unrest if no reforms: Annan

2010-02-24T21:42:23Z

<div><p>Kenya must speed up the pace of reforms if it is to avoid a repeat of the violence that followed the disputed 2007 polls, former UN chief Kofi Annan who mediated an end to the unrest said Wednesday.</p><p>"Kenya cannot afford a recurrence of the crisis and violence that engulfed it...

Annan says some Kenyan "big men" to face ICC

2010-02-24T21:48:03Z

<div><p>NAIROBI (Reuters) - The International Criminal Court (ICC) is likely to try a handful of "big men" behind Kenya's post-election crisis which will send a powerful message to the rest of UN chief Kofi Annan was encouraged by pledges made by Kenya's leaders at talks Monday aimed at pressing for speedy reforms to avoid a repeat of post-election violence, his office said.</p><p>Annan, the mediator in last year's crisis, met with Kenya's unity government must do more to implement reforms and avoid a resurgence of last year's post-election violence, former UN chief Kofi Annan, the mediator in the crisis, said Sunday.</p><p>During his visit to Kenya, Annan will meet with Valerie Pecresse 'Beds Are Burning' song launch by Kofi Annan and Havas Worldwide at Universite Paris Descartes Paris, France - 01.10.09

2009-10-01T14:01:24Z

PARIS - OCTOBER 01: Koffi Annan (L), Melanie Laurent attend "Beds Are Burning" song launch by Kofi Annan and Havas Worldwide at Universite Paris Descartes on October 1, 2009 in Paris, France. (Photo by Julien M. Hekimian/UN chief Kofi Annan will visit Nairobi from October 4 to assess how far Kenya has come with reforms promised to end violence that erupted after a disputed election in December 2007, the African Union...

World celebrities sing to stop global warming

2010-02-25T07:46:12Z

<div><p>British rock group Duran Duran and heavy metal band Scorpions are among 55 world celebrities who have joined in recording a song to draw attention to the global warming crisis, organisers said on Monday.</p><p>The song is part of a mass media campaign on the threats of climate change organised by the Geneva-b...

Former UN chief Annan to take up teaching post in Singapore

2010-02-25T12:12:48Z

<div><p>Former UN secretary-general Kofi Annan will take up a teaching post at a Singapore university next year, a spokeswoman for the school said Thursday.</p><p>Annan will start his teaching stint in early 2010 at the UN urges global system to share data on hurricanes, droughts, floods to fight climate change</div><div><p>The world needs more innovative projects — like putting weather stations on cellular phone towers across Africa — to help it better predict the increased hurricanes, tsunamis, droughts and floods that climate change...

Switzerland World Climate Conference

2009-08-31T03:45:39Z

Kofi Annan, President of the Global Humanitarian Forum, left, and Michel Jarraud, Secretary General of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), talk during the opening of the 3rd World Climate Conference of the WMO, Monday Aug. 31, 2009, in <...

Information exchange the goal as World Climate Conference starts

2009-08-31T04:02:04Z

Kofi Annan, President of the Global Humanitarian Forum, attends the opening of the 3rd World Climate Conference of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), Monday, August 31, 2009, in United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan (L) next to Michel Jarraud, head of the U.N. World Meteorological Organisation at the opening of the World Climate Conference-3 (WCC-3) at the CICG in Geneva August 31, 2009. Some 1 500 policy-makers and dec...

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