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Video: Kofi Annan’s body arrives Ghana for burial

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September 11, 2018
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London, September 11, 2018 (AltAfrika)-The body of former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has been flown back to his native Ghana for a state funeral.

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo received Annan’s widow, Nane Annan, and family at Accra’s Kotoka International Airport Monday.

Ghanaian soldiers cover the coffin of late Ghanaian diplomat Kofi Atta Annan with the Ghanaian flag on the tarmac of Kotoka International Airport in Accra on September 10, 2018. [AFP] 

Six Ghanaian soldiers carried the casket draped with the U.N. flag off the plane. The U.N. flag was then replaced with the red, yellow and green flag of Annan’s homeland in a solemn ceremony attended by Annan’s family and senior Ghanaian and U.N. officials.

Annan’s body will lie in state at the Accra International Conference Center, where the public is invited to pay their respects before the state funeral on Thursday.

The Nobel Laureate and first African to serve as U.N. secretary-general died Aug. 18 in Bern, Switzerland. He was 80

It was a hero welcome for the departed soul of one of Ghana and Africa’s illustrious son upon landing at Kotoka International Airport in Ghana’s capital.

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