Ghana mourns Annan, grandson of tribal chiefs to UN chief
ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — Streets were hushed as the West African nation of Ghana on Saturday mourned Kofi Annan, the grandson of tribal chiefs who became the first black African to assume the world's top diplomatic post. President Nana Akufo-Addo ordered flags to fly at half-staff for a week while trying to reassure the country's 28 million people that the former U.N. secretary-general and Nobel Peace Prize winner left the world without pain. "I am comforted ... that he died peacefully in his sleep," the president said on Twitter after speaking ...
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