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The creeping coup that will keep Mugabe in office signals the end of the West's interventionist era
Zimbabwe opposition leaders must be willing to work alongside Robert Mugabe's party -- even if they unseat him in an upcoming presidential run-off vote, former U.N. chief Kofi Annan says.
A hard-won agreement to form a coalition between bitter rivals is a huge step toward stability. But several hurdles remain
Kenya's opposition leader Wednesday called off mass demonstrations that his supporters had threatened to hold the next day.
Former U.N. Secretary-General and chief mediator Kofi Annan on Tuesday suspended talks to end Kenya's violent post-election crisis.
Kofi Annan has threatened to leave as mediator in the tense Kenyan power-sharing talks if a quick agreement is not reached, a senior aide to former U.N. chief said Monday.
Feuding Kenyan political parties are close to a deal that could help end recent post-election violence, according to mediators in the settlement talks.
Kenya's opposition party called for renewed mass protests unless the Parliament meets within a week and changes the constitution to make way for a political settlement.
Kofi Annan, mediating talks between bitter Kenyan political rivals, said Friday that major progress is being made in forging a political deal that will end the crisis in the East African country.
Kenyan negotiators trying to end the violent ethnic tensions that erupted after the disputed presidential elections last year have reached some sort of a political agreement and will continue talking next week, a spokesman for the mediators said.
The creeping coup that will keep Mugabe in office signals the end of the West's interventionist era
Zimbabwe opposition leaders must be willing to work alongside Robert Mugabe's party -- even if they unseat him in an upcoming presidential run-off vote, former U.N. chief Kofi Annan says.
A hard-won agreement to form a coalition between bitter rivals is a huge step toward stability. But several hurdles remain
Kenya's opposition leader Wednesday called off mass demonstrations that his supporters had threatened to hold the next day.
Former U.N. Secretary-General and chief mediator Kofi Annan on Tuesday suspended talks to end Kenya's violent post-election crisis.
Kofi Annan has threatened to leave as mediator in the tense Kenyan power-sharing talks if a quick agreement is not reached, a senior aide to former U.N. chief said Monday.
Feuding Kenyan political parties are close to a deal that could help end recent post-election violence, according to mediators in the settlement talks.
Kenya's opposition party called for renewed mass protests unless the Parliament meets within a week and changes the constitution to make way for a political settlement.
Kofi Annan, mediating talks between bitter Kenyan political rivals, said Friday that major progress is being made in forging a political deal that will end the crisis in the East African country.
Kenyan negotiators trying to end the violent ethnic tensions that erupted after the disputed presidential elections last year have reached some sort of a political agreement and will continue talking next week, a spokesman for the mediators said.
Political rivals trying to lead Kenya out of weeks of violence that left more than 1,000 people dead signed an agreement Thursday, a U.N. spokesman said
The death toll from post-election violence in Kenya climbed to more than 1,000 Tuesday as government and opposition politicians discussed plans that could eventually lead to a power-sharing agreement.
Leaders on both sides of a contested election move toward a new deal, but the impact of weeks of bloodshed may be more difficult to resolve
Kenya's government Tuesday announced it will find and prosecute anyone who sent "hate text messages" that helped incite ethnic tensions after the contested election in December.
Some of the world's most prominent diplomats are in Kenya trying to prevent an all-out ethnic war from plunging east Africa's most important economy into chaos
Talks to mediate an end to Kenya's political crisis were to resume Friday morning after being suspended in the wake of a second opposition lawmaker's killing a day earlier, according to a U.N. spokesman.
Former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Tuesday pleaded with Kenya's government to take "extraordinary measures" to protect civilians hours after an opposition lawmaker was killed outside his home.
An American diplomat has described the violence in Kenya's Rift Valley as "clear ethnic cleansing" aimed at chasing out members of the Kikuyu tribe who are loyal to President Mwai Kibaki.
Tear gas was fired Wednesday on people taking part in a prayer march sparking more post-election violence in the Kenyan capital.
Kenyan Foreign Minister Moses Wetang'ula said hopes were high that former U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan can start a dialogue to help resolve Kenya's political crisis.
Running battles erupted across Kenya on Wednesday after the country's opposition leader called for three days of nationwide protests against the outcome of last month's presidential elections.
Kenya's opposition party struck a significant blow against the government as its candidates were elected as the house speaker of parliament and deputy speaker in the third round of voting Tuesday.
About 2,400 businessmen and politicians are expected to attend the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, including 900 company chief executives and board chairs and 24 heads of state -- among them British Prime Minister Tony Blair and German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
In 2007 the world's attention will remain focused on a number of big questions:
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan is making his farewells; he steps down from the helm of the world body at the end of this month. As the seventh U.N. chief -- he served nearly a decade dealing with one global crisis after another.
Kofi Annan had some strong words Monday for the United States in his farewell speech as secretary-general of the United Nations.
Palestinian militants who had been in a firefight with Israeli soldiers escaped Friday, many of them slipping away in a crowd of women who had come to join what had begun as a standoff.
The U.N. General Assembly has appointed South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-moon to serve as the United Nations' next secretary-general from January 1.
The UK's Guardian says that there is no doubt that Gordon Brown will be the next Prime Minister of England, in the wake of his speech at the Labour Party conference yesterday.
The U.N. Security Council called for an end to the fighting between Israel and Lebanon's Hezbollah guerrillas Sunday night, warning that continued fighting could have "grave consequences for the humanitarian situation."
Key Middle East players and top diplomats meeting in Rome failed to reach agreement on a plan to end the 15-day-old conflict between Israel and Hezbollah militants.
U.N. chief Kofi Annan called on Thursday for an immediate end to the fighting between Israeli and Hezbollah forces.
A body found near Ramallah appears to be that of an 18-year-old West Bank settler abducted by Palestinian militants last weekend, Israeli security sources said Thursday.
Election workers in Haiti on Wednesday counted votes that will determine the new president and parliament of the impoverished Caribbean nation.
The son of U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan says he is sorry he misused his father's name to save more than $20,000 on a Mercedes SUV he had shipped to his native Ghana. Now, eight years later, he's looking to make things right.
A car bomb exploded in an eastern Beirut suburb Monday morning, killing at least four people, a Red Cross worker said.
Thailand's Health Ministry has confirmed the death of a 5-year-old boy from avian influenza.
The World Health Organization confirmed two human cases of bird flu in China, including a female poultry worker who died from the H5N1 strain of avian influenza.
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan -- the latest top diplomat to visit volatile Iraq -- on Saturday denounced the deadly terror strikes coursing through the Middle East and called for Iraqis to reconcile.
Wednesday's deadly explosions in Amman, Jordan, drew swift condemnation in Washington and at the United Nations.
A woman who died last month in Indonesia was suffering from the deadly H5N1 strain of avian influenza, health officials said Saturday, and an 8-year-old relative has tested positive for the disease.
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan has called on the international community to make immediate preparations for a possible pandemic of bird flu.
Secretary-General Kofi Annan called on the international community Thursday to make immediate preparations for a possible pandemic of bird flu.
World leaders are examining ways to revitalize the United Nations at a summit in New York, but their blueprint falls short of Secretary-General Kofi Annan's vision of freedom from hunger, persecution and war.
The latest report by the independent panel investigating the U.N. oil-for-food program in Iraq reiterates its finding that U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan did not personally engage in unethical behavior.
Nearly half the vendors who participated in the United Nations' oil-for-food program in Iraq engaged in some illicit payments to the Saddam Hussein regime, investigators have found.
A wide-ranging United Nations investigation into oil-for-food program abuses was published Monday, naming the group's head and one of his senior officers as having accepted or solicited bribes.
The author of an e-mail that renewed scrutiny on Kofi Annan's role in Iraq's oil-for-food program denied Wednesday that he ever lobbied the U.N. secretary-general to award a lucrative inspection contract.
Investigators probing the United Nations' oil-for-food program said Tuesday they are reviewing an e-mail that suggests a communication between Secretary-General Kofi Annan and the company that won a lucrative contract and employed his son.
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Thursday told a U.N. special conference on HIV/AIDS that the global response to the disease was insufficient, saying "the epidemic continues to outrun our efforts to contain it."
Two U.S. Marines were killed during a five-hour firefight with insurgents near the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad, a U.S. military spokeswoman told CNN.
U.N. head Kofi Annan has condemned the bombing of a Kabul Internet cafe that killed three people and has expressed concern about increasing violence in Afghanistan.
Over U.S. opposition that branded Zimbabwe an "entirely inappropriate" choice, Zimbabwe was re-elected Wednesday to the U.N. Commission on Human Rights.
The Secretary-General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan, has said he is concerned over aspects of last week's parliamentary elections in Zimbabwe.
An independent U.N. investigative committee is expected to clear Secretary-General Kofi Annan of conflicts of interest in the now-defunct oil-for-food program in Iraq.
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan has urged world leaders to reconfigure the international body to reflect the world's population and better enable it to tackle environmental and human rights challenges.
A congressional subcommittee investigating the United Nations' defunct oil-for-food program in Iraq alleged in a public hearing Tuesday that an employee of one of the program's major contractors took a bribe that enabled former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein to smuggle half a million barrels of oil.
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan is pointing the finger squarely at the Sudanese government for allowing ongoing violence in the western Darfur region.
The December 26 tsunami has prompted the first visit by a U.N. Secretary General to the Maldives, a collection of 1200 tiny islands in the Indian Ocean.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair has rejected criticism of his decision to remain on holiday as the scale of the tsunami disaster was revealed.
U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan has appealed for $977 million in emergency relief over the next six months for the "unprecedented global catastrophe" triggered by the Asian tsunamis.
As nations rush to make donations in the wake of the tsunami tragedy, concerns are being raised over how much of the promised monetary relief will materialize.
South Asian countries will need $977 million in cash assistance over the next six months to recover from the tsunami disaster, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan has said.
Much of Europe fell silent for three minutes on Wednesday as busy rail stations, stock exchanges, offices and shops paused to mourn the victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami disaster.
Saudi Arabia, criticized in the Arab world for not offering more money for tsunami disaster relief, said Tuesday it will triple the aid it has pledged to $30 million and will hold a fund-raising telethon to benefit victims.
Dogged by allegations that he pocketed oil money from Saddam Hussein's government, Benon Sevan, the former head of the United Nations oil-for-food program, insisted this week that he had done nothing wrong.
Kojo Annan, the son of U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, says he had no involvement in the troubled Iraqi oil-for-food program that has drawn both men into multiple investigations.
The Bush administration is not seeking to remove U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan from his post and remains confident in his leadership, U.S. Ambassador John Danforth said Thursday.
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, who faces criticism over corruption in the agency's defunct oil-for-food program, enjoyed a standing ovation Wednesday from General Assembly members.
In his first televised comments since a member of the U.S. Senate called for his resignation, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan shrugged off the senator Tuesday.
U.N. head Kofi Annan has warned that chaos is looming as fighting in the Sundanese province of Darfur escalates, displacing millions of people.
The sonorous voice is familiar around the world. No matter what the crisis of the day, Kofi Annan's soft baritone always manages to convey a sense of imperturbable gravitas.
The U.S. senator leading the investigation into allegations of corruption and mismanagement in the Iraq oil-for-food program is urging U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan to resign, saying the "massive scope of this debacle demands nothing less."
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Monday he was "disappointed and surprised" to learn that his son, Kojo, had remained on the payroll of a company involved in the Iraq oil-for-food program, the subject of several corruption probes.
Iraq's interim defense minister Hazem Sha'alan has lashed out at U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan and leaders of other Arab countries during a pep talk for Iraqi troops before an expected assault on the insurgent-held city of Falluja.
United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan has called on the international community to do more to avert a looming humanitarian tragedy in Sudan.
Global efforts to reduce the scale and the impact of AIDS by next year are not following projections made three years ago, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Sunday.
The Sudanese government Saturday vowed to crack down on militia violence in the country's strife-torn Darfur region, where a shocking humanitarian crisis has been unfolding for months.
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan lamented new struggles that developing countries face in trying to pull their people out of poverty in a speech Saturday to the Group of 77.
A day after a peace agreement marked the end of fighting in southern Sudan, attention has turned to the still embattled western part of the country.
Diplomats on Tuesday questioned how much power the United States will transfer to an interim Iraqi government on June 30, as Russia suggested members of the new government should be chosen before the U.N. Security Council votes to endorse the scheduled handover.
United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan is urging southeast Asian nations to pressure Myanmar to release opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
The U.N. Security Council has offered formal support for Secretary-General Kofi Annan's plan for an independent, high-level investigation of the controversial Iraq oil-for-food program.
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan has sent a letter to the president of the Security Council proposing the establishment of an independent, high-level inquiry to investigate allegations of corruption in Iraq's oil-for-food program.
A former U.N. chief weapons inspector has fueled the row over allegations Britain spied on the United Nations before the Iraq war by saying his phone calls were routinely bugged.
The United Nations said alleged British spying on Secretary-General Kofi Annan's office, if true, is illegal and must stop immediately.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair says claims that UK intelligence agents spied on U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan are "deeply irresponsible" and threatened the security of the country.
L. Paul Bremer, the U.S. civilian administrator in Baghdad, emerged from a meeting with President Bush and other top advisers at the White House on Friday saying the United Nations has a "vital role" to play in postwar Iraq.
Lakhdar Brahimi, previously U.N. special representative to Afghanistan, has been appointed special adviser to Secretary-General Kofi Annan, the United Nations said Thursday.
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