And Boutros Boutros-Ghali, the first United Nations secretary-general from Africa and the first Arab to hold the post, has died in Egypt at the age of 93. Boutros-Ghali led the U.N. in the 1990s, a time marked by violence in Rwanda, Bosnia, Somalia and the former Yugoslavia. His opposition to NATO’s bombing campaign in Bosnia angered the United States. In 1996, then-President Bill Clinton and U.S. representative to the U.N. Madeleine Albright blocked his renewal, making him the only U.N. secretary-general to serve only a single term.
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