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Kofi Atta Annan ( /ˈkoʊfi ˈænən/; born 8 April 1938) is a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations, from 1 January 1997 to 31 December 2006. Annan and the United Nations were the co-recipients of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize for his founding of the Global AIDS and Health Fund to support developing countries in their struggle to care for their people.
Since February 2012, Annan has been the UN-Arab League envoy to Syria, to help find a resolution to ongoing conflict there.
Kofi Annan was born in Kumasi, Ghana. His twin sister Efua Atta, who died in 1991, shares the middle name Atta, which in Fante and Akan means 'twin'. Annan and his sister were born into one of the country's aristocratic families; both their grandfathers and their uncle were tribal chiefs.
In the Akan names tradition, some children are named according to the day of the week on which they were born, and/or in relation to how many children precede them. Kofi in Akan is the name that corresponds with Friday.
Actors: Jean-Hugues Anglade (actor), Philip Akin (actor), Roger Spottiswoode (director), Mark Antony Krupa (actor), Laszlo Barna (producer), Tom McCamus (actor), David Hirschfelder (composer), Deborah Kara Unger (actress), Roy Dupuis (actor), Michel Arcand (editor), Lynn Beaudin (miscellaneous crew), Michael Donovan (writer), Michael Donovan (producer), Paule Girardin (miscellaneous crew), Danielle Depeyre (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: In the end of 1993, the Canadian General Romeo Dallaire is assigned to lead the United Nation troops in Rwanda. In 1994, when the genocide of the Tutsis by the Hutus begins, General Dallaire gives his best effort to help the people in Rwanda, inclusive negotiating with the Tutsi rebels, the Hutu army and the Interhamwe militia. However, he fights against bureaucracy and lack of interest from the United Nations and witnesses the West World ignoring and turning back any sort of support, inclusive USA opposing in the security council of UN to any type of help.
Keywords: based-on-autobiography, based-on-memoir, betrayal, canadian-military, canadian-soldier, cnn-reporter, genocide, rwanda, united-nations, united-nations-blue-beret