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Activist in Yarmouk, Damascus describes scene after blasts kill at least 20 people #Syria (mp3) Facebook Twitter Google plus Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Google plus close 2.37pm BST14:37 Many Syrians unmoved by Annan's resignation Kofi Annan's resignation isn't exactly big news in northern Syria, according to this tweet from Mary Fitzgerald of the Irish Times.
International disarray over the crisis was starkly underlined by Kofi Annan's resignation as international envoy on Syria, or "mission impossible" as he called it.
Her visit comes on the eve of the mission to Syria by Kofi Annan, the joint UN and Arab League envoy who will also raise international concerns about the escalating bloodshed.
According to the chambers' website, she has served as counsel to the inquiry led by UN special rapporteur on counter-terrorism and human rights, Ben Emmerson QC, into the use of drones, and as an adviser to Kofi Annan.
Kofi Annan, the former UN secretary-general, is urging David Cameron to use Britain's chairmanship of the G8 to end some of the "unconscionable" practices of companies exploiting Africa's vast reserves of natural resources.
It marked Kofi Annan's finest hour as the UN and Arab League's special envoy.
The foreign minister, Julie Bishop, has rejected claims by a panel headed by former UN secretary general Kofi Annan that Australia is a "free-rider" on climate change.
He was murdered with 8000 others in 1995, in a massacre later described by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan as the worst crime committed on European soil since the Second World War.
Born in Beirut to a journalist mother and travel agent father, the 36-year-old barrister had already gained a high profile as an adviser to former UN secretary general Kofi Annan and was picked by William Hague for a panel investigating rape as a war crime.
