UPDATE - Former UN Secretary General, Kofi Annan dies at 80

Former United Nations, Secretary General , Kofi Annan has died.
The news was broken on his Twitter handle. The Nobel Laureate died after a brief illness.

See tweet :

It is with immense sadness that the Annan family and the Kofi Annan Foundation announce that Kofi Anna former Secretary General of the  Unit Nations and Nobel Peace Laureate, passed away peacefully on  Saturda 18th August after a short illness..

Kofi Atta Annan was born in Kumasi on April 8 , 1938 .
Annan spent ten years as United Nations Secretary General . The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded jointly to the United Nations and Kofi Annan in 2001 ,

The Nobel citation pointed out that Annan had brought new life to the peacekeeping organization , highlighted the United Nations’s fight for civil rights , and boldly taken on the new challenges of terrorism and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS ; a disease of the immune system).

via Punch