(FILES) In this file photo taken on September 5, 2016 Former UN secretary general Kofi Annan (L) delivers his address while Myanmar State Counsellor and Foreign Minister Aung San Suu Kyi (R) listens during their meeting at the National Reconciliation and Peace Centre in Yangon with the multi sector advisory body to find lasting solution to Myanmar's stateless Rohingya Muslims. - 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 ROMEO GACAD / AFP)