Breaking: Ethiopian Prime Minster, Abiy Ahmed, Wins Nobel Peace Prize

Ethiopian Prime Minster, Abiy Ahmed, has won this years’ Nobel  Peace Prize.

The Award Committee, in a monitored CNN report, said Ahmed was selected for his efforts in ending conflicts in the African region, especially this country’s conflict with Eritrea.

43 years old Ahmed, Africa’s second most populous country’s leader, since he became prime minister in 2018, had engaged in reforms at home, and peace negotiations with the rebel-turned-dictator Isaias Afwerki, president of Eritrea.’

The two nations share deep ethnic and cultural ties, but until July last year they had been locked into a state of neither peace nor war, a conflict that had separated families, complicated geopolitics and cost the lives of more than 80,000 people during two years of border violence..

Within his country Mr. Ahmed had lifted the country’s state of emergency, granting amnesty to thousands of political prisoners, discontinuing media censorship, legalizing outlawed opposition groups, dismissing military and civilian leaders suspected of corruption, among other achievement, which the committee said had qualified him for the award.

More detailed report later.