Luanda, ANGOLA, August 18 - The former secretary general of the United Nations, Kofi Annan, died Saturday at the age of 80 in Switzerland.,

Kofi Annan was Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and former UN Secretary General between 1997 and 2006.

According to several media bodies, the information was confirmed by the Kofi Annan Foundation and the family of the diplomat, who remembers him as "a global statesman".

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