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Kofi Annan's legacy 'will live on'
World leaders and royalty have paid their respects to the former UN Secretary General.
Moving tributes are paid to the first black African UN leader at his funeral in Ghana. Sierra Leone's anti-corruption commission orders that the country's Football Association president and secretary general be suspended from office within one week or face arrest. Mudslides kill more than 50 people in a remote mountainous area in Sudan's Darfur region. And we speak to Congolese French illustrator Nicholle Kobi whose drawings celebrating black women have a huge following on social media.
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