Kofi Annan, the former UN secretary-general and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, passed away peacefully at age 80 after a short illness, as the world continues to mourn the son of Africa, one person who has really lost a com[panion is Nane Maria, the widow of Kofi Annan.
Nane Maria and Kofi Annan tied the knot in New York in 1984, and together they have three children.
However much is not know about her.
Here are some of the things you need to know about Ms. Nane Annan
She comes from a diplomatic Family
Nane Annan is the niece of Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat who helped thousands of Jews to escape from the Nazis during World War II and who disappeared mysteriously in Budapest as Soviet troops entered the city in 1945,
She has a monument named after her
In August 2001, she and her husband unveiled a monument to Wallenberg in Stockholm, the city where Nane Lagergren was born.
She is a lawyer by profession
In Stockholm, she studied law, taking a degree in 1968, before becoming an assistant judge at the administrative and fiscal court of appeal.
She is also a UN Diplomat
She later took leave from the court to work with a parliamentary commission on ethnic prejudice and discrimination, before joining the office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees in Geneva as a legal officer in 1981.
She is a women rights advocate
Nane Annan, for the longest time, has focused on women’s issues, programs designed to alleviate poverty, and the welfare of children, refugees and the disabled.
She is the Second wife to Kofi Annan
She married Kofi Annan in 1984 after he divorced his first wife in the 70s and together they have three children,