Editing Kojo Annan (section)

==Career==
From 1995 to 1997, Kojo Annan worked in West Africa for the Swiss-based inspection company ''Cotecna'', then as a marketing consultant for the company.

In September 1998, Kojo Annan met with several heads of state and government ministers during the opening session of the [[United Nations General Assembly|U.N. General Assembly]]. In December, Cotecna won a $4.8&nbsp;million Oil-for-Food contract.<ref>Shawn, Eric, et al., [https://www.foxnews.com/story/how-close-was-kojo-annan-to-oil-for-food "How Close Was Kojo Annan to Oil-for-Food?"], Fox News Channel (input from ''The New York Post''), 3 December 2004.</ref>

Kojo Annan, [[Kofi Annan]] and Cotecna deny that the younger Annan was involved in the Oil-for-Food contract. Kojo Annan also claimed that connections with Cotecna severed after 1998; however, he continued to be paid by the company until February 2004.

The Second Interim Report by the IIC confirmed that Cotecna indeed won the Oil-for-Food contract fairly and based on merit. The Committee concluded that there was no link between Kofi Annan and the award of Cotecna's contract; and Cotecna had been transparent and cooperative through this investigation.<ref>{{cite news|title=Annan cleared over oil-for-food|date=29 March 2005 |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4391031.stm|publisher=BBC|access-date=17 November 2016}}</ref>

On 13 December 2004, Kojo Annan claimed that the probe into the Oil-for-Food Programme by [[United States congressional committee|U.S. congressional committees]] was "a witchhunt from day one as part of a broader [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] political agenda."<ref>Koinange, Jeff, [http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/12/13/un.annan.kojo/index.html "Annan's son: Probe 'a witchhunt'"], [[CNN]], 13 December 2004.</ref>

A January 2005 article in ''[[The Sunday Times]]'' announced that he had confessed involvement in the UN [[Oil-for-Food Programme]] scandal; in a libel settlement eleven months later, the paper announced that it now "entirely accepts that the allegation was untrue."<ref>Wald, Jonathan, [http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/11/11/annan.libel/ "Annan's son settles UK libel case"], CNN, 11 November 2005.</ref>

[[Megadeth]]'s front-man [[Dave Mustaine]], mentioned Kojo Annan in the song "[[United Abominations]]", the title track of Megadeth's 2007 studio release. This song, based on the [[United Nations|UN]], sparked an official retort from the UN on 10 July by Mark Leon Goldberg of the [[United Nations|United Nations affairs blog]], UN Dispatch, who posted a rebuttal based on the accusations Mustaine made in the song.

In April 2016, he was [[list of people named in the Panama Papers|listed]] in a leaked confidential document, the [[Panama Papers]], revealing his use of offshore accounts.<ref name="Power Players">{{cite web |title=Panama Papers: The Power Players |url=https://panamapapers.icij.org/the_power_players/ |publisher=[[International Consortium of Investigative Journalists]] |access-date=3 April 2016}}</ref>

Kojo Annan currently holds interest in a number of start-ups and has founded Africa10 in 2016, a social enterprise focusing on the development of African youth through sports and education<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://africa10.com/|title=Africa10 – The Power Of 10 Creating a global A10 generation of champions|date=10 May 2017|work=Africa10|access-date=24 November 2018}}</ref>