UN Secretaries-General normally spend two terms in office; however sometimes they will serve only one if there is significant member state disapproval of their performance. Such is what happened to Boutros Boutros-Ghali.
The position of UN Secretary-General is supposed to rotate by geographic region; but that rule is often broken. Since Boutros Boutros-Ghali served only one term, his successor (Kofi Annan) had to come from Africa as well. But when Kofi Annan had finished his first term, the position should have gone to an Asian. But the member states have been very impressed with Kofi Annan's performance, and so they appointed him to a second term anyway.
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