translated from Spanish: Award Edify Nobel Peace Prize to Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed

Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali will receive the award “for his efforts to achieve peace and international cooperation and, in particular, for his decisive initiative to resolve the border conflict with the Eritrea.”
The award given to the Ethiopian leader, born in 1976 in Beshasha, wants to “recognize all actors working for peace and reconciliation in Ethiopia and in the east and northeastern African regions,” the Committee notes.
The Peace Prize went to Africa last year, when Congolese physician Denis Mukwege received it with Iraqi Yazidi activist Nadia Murad, both distinguished for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and in conflic armed cough.
Ideals of “unity, cooperation and mutual coexistence”
The Office of Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed today considered it a “pride” and “eternal recognition” to the ideals of “unity, cooperation and mutual coexistence”.
“This recognition is an eternal testimony to the ideals of the Medemer (in Amharic “staying together” or “synergy”) of unity, cooperation and mutual coexistence that the prime minister has permanently led,” the Office said in a statement.
The Nobel Peace Prize closes the week of these prestigious awards, which opened on Monday with the Week of Medicine, followed by those of Physics and Chemistry, until yesterday to the Literature. The last one, Economy, will be unveiled on Monday.
Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk and her Austrian colleague Peter Handke were the winners of the literary prize for 2018 and 2019.
The Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded this year exceptionally by double, after being put on hold of the previous edition because of the sexual abuse scandal that engulfed the Academy.
All prizes will be presented on 10 December, the anniversary of the death of the founder, Alfred Nobel, in a double ceremony at the Konserthus in Stockholm and at Oslo City Council, where the Peace Council is celebrated.

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