{"id":5027,"date":"2013-01-07T03:41:48","date_gmt":"2013-01-07T03:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/kofi-annan-book-explores-life-in-war-peace\/"},"modified":"2013-01-07T03:46:41","modified_gmt":"2013-01-07T03:46:41","slug":"kofi-annan-book-explores-life-in-war-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/kofi-annan-book-explores-life-in-war-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"Kofi Annan Book Explores Life in War &#038; Peace"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-1874 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/bin\/anan.bin\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>{{Former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan\u2019s book, \u2018Interventions, A Life in War and Peace.\u2019 was officially launched in a colorful ceremony held in Accra, Ghana on Saturday.}}<\/p>\n<p>In the 353-page book, Annan provides a personal account of life in war-torn and peaceful countries as well as the achievements and challenges of the UN.<\/p>\n<p> Speaking during the ceremony, the soft-spoken former UN boss he noted that democracy was gradually gaining ground globally and urged Ghanaians to foster democracy in order to enhance socio-economic development of the nation. <\/p>\n<p>The book is a good read for Kenyans with the Chief Mediator after the 2007\/2008 disputed Elections recounting in a chapter entitled, \u2018Half a million Rwandan Ghosts: Crisis in Kenya\u2019, details of the negotiations that led to the 2008 National Accord. <\/p>\n<p>He credits the peace accord for developing a framework for a new constitution.<\/p>\n<p>{internet story}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{Former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan\u2019s book, \u2018Interventions, A Life in War and Peace.\u2019 was officially launched in a colorful ceremony held in Accra, Ghana on Saturday.}} In the 353-page book, Annan provides a personal account of life in war-torn and peaceful countries as well as the achievements and challenges of the UN. Speaking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[100],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-5027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people","tag-africa","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5027"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=5027"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=5027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}