{"id":10174,"date":"2025-09-15T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ahead.africa\/?p=10174"},"modified":"2026-04-01T14:44:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T14:44:41","slug":"a-message-from-the-eu-au-ambassador-on-international-democracy-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ahead.africa\/en\/a-message-from-the-eu-au-ambassador-on-international-democracy-day\/","title":{"rendered":"A message from the EU-AU ambassador on International Democracy Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today, 15 September 2025, we celebrate democracy. However, every day we work together to protect it as a shared value and a joint commitment every day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On this International Day of Democracy, the EU Ambassador to the African Union, Javier Ni\u00f1o P\u00e9rez, underlines how the AU-EU partnership and initiatives like AHEAD Africa are crucial in keeping democracy strong.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hear from him directly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video controls src=\"https:\/\/ahead.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Compressed-EU-Ambassador-to-the-AU-IDD.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, we celebrate democracy; every day we work together to protect it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":10190,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"blog","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,62],"tags":[94],"grantees":[],"partner":[],"region":[45],"class_list":["post-10174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-advocacy","category-countries","tag-interview","region-continental"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahead.africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahead.africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahead.africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahead.africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahead.africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10174"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/ahead.africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11701,"href":"https:\/\/ahead.africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10174\/revisions\/11701"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahead.africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahead.africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahead.africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahead.africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10174"},{"taxonomy":"grantees","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahead.africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/grantees?post=10174"},{"taxonomy":"partner","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahead.africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/partner?post=10174"},{"taxonomy":"region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahead.africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/region?post=10174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}