Kofi Annan burial date. Former United Nations chief and Nobel prize laureate Kofi Annan will be buried in his home country Ghana on September 13, the West African nation’s president has said.
Nana Akufo-Addo told a delegation of Annan’s family that Kofi would have a full state burial, “befitting his status as a global icon, diplomat and statesman”.
Annan died in a Swiss hospital at the age of 80. He was surrounded in his last days by his second wife Nane and children Kojo and Nina, his foundation and close associates said.
Annan served two terms as UN Secretary-General in New York from 1997-2006.
