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TOPSHOT - An artist paints a portrait of Kofi Annan at the entrance of Accra International Conference Centre in Accra on September 11, 2018, where the coffin of the Ghanaian diplomat and former Secretary General of United Nations who died on August 18 at the age of 80 after a short illness lays. - Annan's body will remain at Accra Conference Centre until the burial ceremony that will take place on September 13 at Burma Camp military cemetery in Accra. Kofi Annan was the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations, serving from 1997 to 2006. (Photo by CRISTINA ALDEHUELA / AFP) (Photo credit should read CRISTINA ALDEHUELA/AFP/Getty Images)