series which documented the role the Organization played in mobilizing global support for pivotal issues of the 20th century, such as opposition to apartheid, the advancement of women, the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and the genocides in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, whose criminal courts became models for the International Criminal Court. Lone's last UN assignment was as UN Spokesman in Iraq right after the 2003 US-led invasion. His boss Sergio Vieira de Mello and 21 other colleagues in Baghdad were killed in a terrorist attack on Canal Hotel in August, but Lone survived with minor injuries. Kenyan political spokesperson After retiring from the UN, Lone returned to Kenya in 2004 after he was appointed the Government Spokesman for the Mwai Kibaki regime, the first democratically elected government since Kenya's December 1963 independence, but the appointment was rescinded before he actually took it up. He then became Spokesman for Raila Odinga, the opposition leader and was the communications director for the first 2005 referendum on a new Constitution which the Opposition won. After that he became a columnist for the Daily Nation, and wrote regular columns for the Guardian, UK, and was published in many other newspapers such as The NY Times, The Washington Post, The Globe and Mail (Toronto), The Financial Times, The Independent, The Times of India and Dawn (Pakistan).; earlier he had been published by the NY Review of Books and The New Republic. Lone was also frequently interviewed by the BBC, Al Jazeera and CNN, including on Charlie Rose, Newsnight, Inside Story and Larry King Live. He was the principal figure in three documentaries on the disastrous US-led in the Iraq war and occupation, by Al Jazeera, and the public TV stations of Japan (NHK) and the Netherlands. In 2007 he again became Spokesman for Raila Odinga before the 2007 presidential election. But Lone's forceful public advocacy for a robust international involvement in finding a negotiated solution to end the mass violence that followed the tainted presidential election - which resulted in President Kibaki having to create the position of Prime Minister for Mr Odinga - led to many death threats, and he had to flee Kenya again. Lone returned to Nairobi when an Accord mediated by the international community under former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan's leadership was signed by President Mwai Kibaki and opposition leader Raila Odinga (who was named Prime Minister under the Accord)