Kofi Annan, U.N. Win Nobel Peace Prize: ‘The United Nations and Secretary-General Kofi Annan won the centenary Nobel Peace Prize today for working for “a more peaceful world” in the 21st century by tackling challenges from poverty to terrorism.

The choice brought a flood of praise from around the globe, except from survivors of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda who accused Annan of responsibility in failing to stop the slaughter. He was head of U.N. peacekeeping at the time.’ LA Times