(FILES) In this file photo taken on June 07, 2012 Joint Special Envoy for Syria, Kofi Annan addresses the 66th session of the General Assembly on the situation in the Syrian Arab Republic at the United Nations June 7, 2012 in New York. AFP PHOTO TIMOTHY A. CLARY - 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 Timothy A. CLARY / AFP)