Former UN chief Kofi Annan dies

Annan served as UN Secretary General from 1997 and 2006

FORMER UNITED Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan has died, the UN's International Organisation of Migration announced.

Annan is said to have died in Switzerland earlier this morning after a short illness, according to reports.

Annan, who was born in Ghana in 1938, served as the seventh UN Secretary-General, from 1997 to 2006, and was the first to rise from within the ranks of the United Nations staff.

He had been a member of The Elders, a group of global leaders working for human rights, since it was founded in 2007. In 2013, he became its chairman.

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