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Post by Admin on Oct 12, 2019 18:04:43 GMT
Abiy Ahmed Ali sought to establish peace with longtime for Eritrea after decades of conflict.
Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed of Ethiopia won the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize, the awards committee announced in Norway on Friday.
He was recognised for starting peace talks with Eritrea and establishing a peace agreement to end the long stalemate between the two countries.
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Post by Admin on Oct 13, 2019 5:35:37 GMT
Thunberg was widely tipped as a potential winner of the coveted prize this year in the wake of her work raising awareness around the growing climate crisis and founding climate strikes that have taken a hold among young people worldwide.  She was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by Norwegian politicians in March this year, The Guardian reported. But the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the prize to Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali for "his decisive initiative to resolve the border conflict with Eritrea," the prize body said in a news release. It added that the prize was also intended to recognise "all stakeholders working for peace and reconciliation" in the east and northeast African regions. Speaking about a peace agreement reached between the Ethiopian prime minister and his Eritrean counterpart Isaias Afwerki last year, the committee said: "Peace does not arise from the actions of one party alone. When Prime Minister Abiy reached out his hand, President Afwerki grasped it, and helped to formalise the peace process between the two countries." |
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