{"id":4241,"date":"2018-08-20T09:24:52","date_gmt":"2018-08-20T09:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/?p=4241"},"modified":"2019-11-06T08:22:28","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T08:22:28","slug":"message-from-greenpeace-africa-executive-director-on-the-passing-of-former-un-secretary-general-kofi-annan-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/press\/4241\/message-from-greenpeace-africa-executive-director-on-the-passing-of-former-un-secretary-general-kofi-annan-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Message from Greenpeace Africa Executive Director on the passing of former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4327\" style=\"width: 1210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4327\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4327\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-africa-stateless\/2018\/11\/f9b43c4f-gp029ob.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;Age of Stupid&quot; Film Premiere New York. \u00a9 Michael Nagle\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1035\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-africa-stateless\/2018\/11\/f9b43c4f-gp029ob.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-africa-stateless\/2018\/11\/f9b43c4f-gp029ob-300x259.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-africa-stateless\/2018\/11\/f9b43c4f-gp029ob-768x662.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-africa-stateless\/2018\/11\/f9b43c4f-gp029ob-1024x883.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-africa-stateless\/2018\/11\/f9b43c4f-gp029ob-394x340.jpg 394w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4327\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Secretary-General of the United Nations Kofi Annan speaks after the world premiere of &#8220;The Age of Stupid,&#8221; a docu-drama about the climate crisis set in a apocalyptic world where people look back on our time and try and figure out why humans did not take meaningful action when they had the chance.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Following the news of the passing of former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, Greenpeace Africa Executive Director Njeri Kabeberi has said:<\/p>\n<p>A great pillar of peace, justice, human rights and equality has fallen. We share in the grief of all those who mourn him.<\/p>\n<p>As UN Secretary General Kofi Annan made the need to act for our climate a priority. We call on leaders everywhere to walk in the path he set and continue making climate action a key prerogative. The planet faces more threats today than ever before and we must continue to keep the flame Kofi lit for climate justice burning in his honour.<\/p>\n<p>Rest well illustrious son of Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the news of the passing of former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, Greenpeace Africa Executive Director Njeri Kabeberi has said: A great pillar of peace, justice, human rights and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":4327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"p4_og_title":"","p4_og_description":"","p4_og_image":"","p4_og_image_id":"","p4_seo_canonical_url":"","p4_campaign_name":"","p4_local_project":"","p4_basket_name":"","p4_department":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[31,46],"p4-page-type":[14],"class_list":["post-4241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-inspirethemovement","tag-activism","tag-greenpeaceafrica","p4-page-type-press"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4241"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4329,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4241\/revisions\/4329"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4241"},{"taxonomy":"p4-page-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/p4-page-type?post=4241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}