Former UN Secretary General Boutros Ghali passes away

February 17, 2016

Former United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali passed away in Cairo, Egypt. He was 93.
Mr. Boutros-Ghali was Egyptian politician and diplomat who had served as sixth UN Secretary-General from 1992 to 1996. He was United Nations’ first secretary-general from Africa.

About Boutros Boutros-Ghali

Boutros Boutros-Ghali was born in Cairo on 14 November 1922. His grandfather Boutros Ghali had served Prime Minister of Egypt from 1908 until his assassination in 1910.
During his term as UN Secretary-General, he had overseen several world crises including the break-up of Yugoslavia, genocide and famine in Africa.
He had associated himself with the famine in Somalia and had organised the first massive UN relief operation in the horn of African country.
During his tenure, he had earned a nickname Pharaoh for his reputation for being proud and prickly and reorganising the UN bureaucracy by slashing posts and demoting officials.
Prior to joining UN, he had worked in the administrations of Egyptian Presidents Anwar Sadat and Hosni Mubarak.
He had served as Egypt’s Minister of State (MoS) for Foreign Affairs from 1977 till 1991.
He also had served as first Secretary General of La Francophonie, an organisation of French-speaking nations from 1997 to 2002.

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