Former UN chief and Nobel peace laureate Kofi Annan died yesterday at the age of 80, prompting a barrage of tributes and condolences from around the world for the "diplomatic rock star".

Tributes are paid from across the world to former United Nations Secretary-General and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Kofi Annan, who dies in hospital in Bern, Switzerland.

Former UN chief Kofi Annan urged the Security Council on Friday to push for the return to Myanmar of hundreds of thousands of Rohyingas who have been driven out in an army campaign.

Former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan urges Myanmar to make sure the half-million Rohingya Muslim refugees who have fled in the last two months can go home, and not go to camps.

The Rakhine Advisory Commission, led by its chairman former UN chief Kofi Annan, has called for freedom of movement for all people

Aung San Suu Kyi picks ex- UN chief Kofi Annan to lead commission to stop human rights abuses in Rakhine State between Buddhists and minority Rohingya Muslims.