Former UN secretary-general Koffi Annan is dead. 

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According to reports from his family, Annan died aged 80 after a short illness.

Annan will be remembered in Nairobi as a great peacemaker who brokered the Kibaki-Raila truce at a time the country was headed into a civil war.

He was the seventh UN secretary general between 1997 and 2006 and won the Nobel peace prize for his humanitarian work.