Kofi Annan

Medeama SC players celebrated beating Hearts of Oak in a league match Medeama SC clinched the Kofi Annan Challenge Cup on Sunday after beating Ebusua Dwarfs 1-0 in the final at the Robert Mensah Stadium. Defender Kwabena Adusei scored the only goal of the match to hand the Tarkwa-based their first silverware ahead of the new Premier League campaign. The victory will serve as a morale booster to the side ahead of the commencement of GHALCA G8 Cup competition which begins this weekend...Read Full Story

Marbella is seen as one of the most popular tourism hotspots, however, there is 'much more than a wonderful climate, glamour, luxury and famous parties. This is the reason why The Best of Marbella is only featuring and promoting the most beautiful and positive aspects of Marbella - and there are many! Even though The Best of Marbella has been on hold for a while and in the meantime expanded to the Best of Vienna and the Best of the World in an effort to make this world a better place, I am...Read Full Story

Former UN chief Kofi Annan on Wednesday criticised countries that promise aid but fail to deliver, as world leaders tried to breathe new life into the battle against poverty at a UN summit. Annan, who headed the United Nations in 2000 when its Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were set, also warned of increased social unrest if the gulf between rich and poor was not narrowed. "Governments go public with amounts that they are giving, they get lots of publicity in the press, but the money...Read Full Story

The Five Virtues of Kofi Annan : TIME Magazine Cover Story by Joshua Cooper Ramo Download: $2.95 (Visit the Bestsellers in By Publisher list for authoritative information on this product's current rank.) Review & Description Drawing on his days in the classrooms of M.I.T. and on the playing fields of Ghana, the U.N. the leader purses a moral vision for enforcing world peace. Read more Find the best price Click HereRead Full Story

Nobel Peace laureate and former UN secretary general Kofi Annan on Thursday said calls on African governments to give priority to agricultural funding are starting to bear fruit. "We have long called on African governments to break from the past practices of underfunding agriculture and curtailing the development of the private sector," Annan said at a forum in the Ghanaian capital. "Now this ...is happening. African governments are making changes," he said, citing at least five countries...Read Full Story

FORMER UN secretary general Kofi Annan is coming to Marbella to talk about wine. The Nobel Prize winner will be the key note speaker at the Third World Conference on Climate Change and Wine, which is being held in Marbella next month for the first time.The main focus of his speech – which will be introduced by Pancho Campo MW, the first Spaniard to hold the title Master of Wine – will be on the responsibility of the corporate world in the fight against climate change. And after the...Read Full Story

Former UN chief Kofi Annan on Thursday launched a "musical petition" involving some 60 world celebrities in the name of climate change ahead of a key Copenhagen summit. The petition can be signed by downloading free of charge the new version of 1980s Midnight Oil hit "Beds Are Burning" by the Australian group. The group's former frontman Peter Garrett is currently Australian environment minister. The song was recorded by some 60 celebrities including former tennis champion turned musician...Read Full Story

NAIROBI (Reuters) - International Criminal Court (ICC) trials are needed for leaders of last year's post-election violence in Kenya alongside a local tribunal for lesser offenders, former U.N. chief Kofi Annan said on Wednesday. Annan led last year's talks to end the violence that killed at least 1,300 people and uprooted another 300,000. He has said that Kenyans want to see concrete action. "Let me stress here: it is not either a local tribunal or the International Criminal Court," he told...Read Full Story

(Cross-posted on the Google.org and LatLong Blogs) Climate change is too often misunderstood to be simply an environmental issue, rather than a human issue. For our children and grandchildren, climate change is an issue of public health, economics, global security and social equity. This human side of climate change is explained in a new Google Earth tour narrated by former U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan. Within these stories, you’ll find data and tools to explore this topic in more...Read Full Story

Former U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan says progress has been made but more still needs to be done to help smallholder farmers in Africa. Annan was speaking Thursday at the World Food Prize symposium in Des Moines , Iowa , where he talked about the plight smallholder farmers face in overcoming challenges such as poor seeds and poor management of land and water resources. He says an unprecedented effort from international organizations has led to some progress, but African governments and...Read Full Story