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UN Sec-Gen. to attend Kofi Annans funeral in Ghana

Secretary-General of the United Nations (UN), Antonio Guterres, will be in Ghana on 13 September 2018 for the state funeral of the late former UN Chief, Kofi Annan.

This was announced by the United Nations Information Centre in Accra, Ghana.

Secretary-General @antonioguterres will be in Ghana to attend the state funeral of former @UN SG, @KofiAnnan on 13 September, says @UN_Spokesperson Mr Annan will be buried at the new cemetery at Burma Camp allocated for VIPs; civilian VIPs.

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Present and past world leaders are expected to converge on Accra to mourn with Ghanaians and bid the beacon of peace farewell.

Mr Annan died on Saturday, 18 August 2018 in Geneva, Switzerland, after a short illness.

He was 80.

Mr Annan was a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations from January 1997 to December 2006.

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Annan and the UN were the co-recipients of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize. He is the founder and chairman of the Kofi Annan Foundation, as well as chairman of The Elders, an international organization founded by Nelson Mandela.

Born in Kumasi, Annan went on to study economics at Macalester College, international relations from the Graduate Institute Geneva and management at MIT.

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Annan joined the UN in 1962, working for the World Health Organization’s Geneva office. He went on to work in several capacities at the UN Headquarters including serving as the Under-Secretary-General for peacekeeping between March 1992 and December 1996.

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He was appointed as the Secretary-General on 13 December 1996 by the Security Council, and later confirmed by the General Assembly, making him the first office holder to be elected from the UN staff itself. He was re-elected for a second term in 2001, and was succeeded as Secretary-General by Ban Ki-moon on 1 January 2007.

As the Secretary-General, Annan reformed the UN bureaucracy; worked to combat HIV, especially in Africa; and launched the UN Global Compact. He has been criticized for not expanding the Security Council and faced calls for resignation after an investigation into the Oil-for-Food Programme. After leaving the UN, he founded the Kofi Annan Foundation in 2007 to work on international development. In 2012, Annan was the UNArab League Joint Special Representative for Syria, to help find a resolution to the ongoing conflict there.

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Source: classfmonline.com

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