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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born to a Coptic Christian family in Cairo in 1922, Boutros-Ghali spent three decades teaching international law at Cairo University before Anwar Sadat pulled him into politics in 1977 as acting foreign minister. In that role he helped broker the Camp David Accords and the Egypt–Israel peace treaty. Elected UN secretary-general in 1991, he took office in 1992 and immediately faced the Somali Civil War, the breakup of Yugoslavia, the Rwandan genocide, and the Angolan Civil War — crises that brought accusations of inaction in Rwanda and Angola, and a faltering peacekeeping effort in Bosnia that forced NATO to step in. In 1996 he ran unopposed for a second term, but the United States vetoed him, the first time Washington had ever blocked a sitting secretary-general. He left to lead La Francophonie and later chaired the South Centre, a think tank for developing countries, until his death in Cairo in 2016 at 93.