 Annabi died in the 2010 Haiti earthquake in which the UN Headquarters in Port-au-Prince collapsed.Annabi was born on 4 September 1941.He received a degree in political science from the "Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris", a degree in English language and literature from the University of Tunis, and a master's degree ("diplôme") in international relations from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies ("Institut universitaire de hautes études internationales et du developpement") in Geneva.