(FILES) In this file photo taken on September 2, 2010 Chairman of the Board for Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) and former Secretary General of the UN Kofi Annan delivers a speech during the African green Revolution Forum at the Accra international confrence center. - Former United Nations Secretary General and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Kofi Annan has died on August 18, 2018 after a short illness at the age of 80, his foundation announced. "It is with immense sadness that the Annan family and the Kofi Annan Foundation announce that Kofi Annan, former Secretary General of the United Nations and Nobel Peace Laureate, passed away peacefully on Saturday 18th August after a short illness," the foundation said in a statement. (Photo by Issouf SANOGO / AFP)