(FILES) In this file photo taken on March 1, 2012 UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon (R) meets with UN-Arab League Joint Special Envoy for Syria Kofi Annan at the United Nations headquarters in New York. - 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 Emmanuel DUNAND / AFP)