{"id":473,"date":"2018-08-20T06:20:07","date_gmt":"2018-08-20T06:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aennewsdiary.com\/?p=473"},"modified":"2018-08-20T06:28:32","modified_gmt":"2018-08-20T06:28:32","slug":"uns-former-secretary-general-kofi-annan-dies-in-switzerland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/aennewsdiary.com\/index.php\/2018\/08\/20\/uns-former-secretary-general-kofi-annan-dies-in-switzerland\/","title":{"rendered":"UN\u2019s former secretary-general Kofi Annan dies in Switzerland"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content clearfix\">\n<figure class=\"entry-thumbnail\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Kofi Annan, former UN secretary general\" src=\"http:\/\/aennewsdiary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/8d370a2116b229830961a284ede72998-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: United Nations<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>According to media news, UN\u2019s former secretary general Kofi Annan passed away in Switzerland. He was 80 years of age, he passed away peacefully after a short illness. He was the first black African to become UN secretary-general.<\/p>\n<p>He was awarded the Noble Peace Prize in 2001 for helping to revitalise the international body UN.<\/p>\n<p>Reportedly the world leaders sent condolences to his family, said media news report.<\/p>\n<p>-AENNS-18\/08\/2018<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Credit: United Nations According to media news, UN\u2019s former secretary general Kofi Annan passed away in Switzerland. He was 80 years of age, he passed away peacefully after a short illness. He was the first <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"http:\/\/aennewsdiary.com\/index.php\/2018\/08\/20\/uns-former-secretary-general-kofi-annan-dies-in-switzerland\/\" title=\"UN\u2019s former secretary-general Kofi Annan dies in Switzerland\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":475,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-photos","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/aennewsdiary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/aennewsdiary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/aennewsdiary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aennewsdiary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aennewsdiary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/aennewsdiary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":476,"href":"http:\/\/aennewsdiary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions\/476"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aennewsdiary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/aennewsdiary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aennewsdiary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aennewsdiary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}