Travel

United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan arrived in Luanda on Sunday evening, 25 August, for a two-day official visit to Angola.

At the end of his holiday in Ghana, the Secretary-General accepted a long-standing invitation to meet in Côte d’Ivoire with that country’s President Laurent Gbagbo.

On Friday, 16 August, while on holiday in his native Ghana, Secretary-General Kofi Annan was awarded the traditional honorary title of “Busumuru” by the Ashanti people in his birthplace of Kumasi.

The Secretary-General arrived on Friday 12 July in Abuja, Nigeria, after ending his visit to Sudan.

Secretary-General Kofi Annan arrived in the Sudan from Durban, South Africa, on Wednesday, 10 July.

The Secretary-General arrived very early on Sunday, 7 July, in the South African port city of Durban from Vienna, Austria, after having made two refuelling stops in Tunis, Tunisia, and Libreville, Gabon.

Secretary-General Kofi Annan flew from New York to Austria on Tuesday, 2 July.

The Secretary-General arrived in Calgary, Alberta, on Wednesday, 26 June, en route to the Group of Eight summit.

On Friday, 21 June, Secretary-General Kofi Annan travelled to Illinois where, that evening, he delivered the keynote address at Northwestern University’s 144^th commencement ceremonies in Evanston, just outside of Chicago.

The Secretary-General departed Geneva on Sunday, 9 June.  He arrived in Rome in the late afternoon, where he met immediately with James Morris, the Executive Director of the World Food Programme (WFP).