Sources from Accra stated that on Monday, Annan's body was transferred to the West African nation from Switzerland, where he died on August 18 at the age of 80 and however, it wasn't immediately clear why the process took so long. Furthermore among those who attended the state funeral of the Nobel Peace Prize laureate at the International Conference Centre in the Ghanaian capital were UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, Ghana's President Nana Akufo-Addo, senior government and military officials as well as dignitaries from across the world.
Akufo-Addo posted to twitter "Kofi Annan brought considerable renown to Ghana as UN Secretary General and by his conduct and comportment in the global arena". Accordingly he gave his life to making peace where there was conflict, to defending the voiceless who were powerless, to promoting virtue where there was evil." Meanwhile when speaking at the funeral, Guterres said "As we face the headwinds of our troubled and turbulent times, let us always be inspired by the legacy of Kofi Annan and our world needs it now more than ever."
Furthermore Annan
started his career at the UN in 1962 and 35 years later became the first person
from sub-Saharan Africa to be appointed Secretary General. Previously in 2001,
Annan and the UN were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for "their
work for a better organized and more peaceful world”.
