By Gwladys Fouche OSLO (Reuters) – The winner of the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize will be announced on Oct. 6 in Oslo. Here is a look at how the award works: WHO CAN WIN? According to the will of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, the prize should go to the person “who …
By Gwladys Fouche OSLO (Reuters) – The winner of the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize will be announced on Oct. 6 in Oslo. Here are some past winners – and one person who did not but should have. MARTIN LUTHER KING The leader of the U.S. civil rights movement was “the first person in the Western …
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By Gwladys Fouche and Ilze Filks OSLO/STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and Russian dissident Alexei Navalny are among favourites for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, but experts say campaigners for women, Indigenous peoples or the environment could well steal the stage. Given past form, the Norwegian Nobel Committee is also capable of a …
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By Daphne Psaledakis WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States on Thursday imposed sanctions on two companies, including one based in Russia, and one person it accused of exacerbating instability in Sudan as fighting has killed thousands and displaced millions of civilians. The action is the latest round of sanctions imposed by Washington after war between the …
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NIAMEY (Reuters) -At least a dozen Niger soldiers were killed following an attack by hundreds of armed insurgents on motorbikes in the country’s southwest on Thursday morning, the West African nation’s defence ministry said in a statement. Seven soldiers were killed in combat while five others died in an accident while driving to reinforce the …
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By El Tayeb Siddig PORT SUDAN, Sudan (Reuters) – On a dusty plot in the Red Sea city of Port Sudan, General Kidi and Ganja Farmer perform tracks and rap with hand-held mics as people in the audience clap, dance and ululate. The founders of the “Nuba Mountain Sound” band come from South Kordofan, a …
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By Mahamat Ramadane and Dina Sakr CAIRO/N’DJAMENA (Reuters) – Mamadou Safaiou Barry was determined to study Islamic theology at an elite school. Unable to afford a flight to Egpyt from Guinea, he drew a map of Africa in his spiral notebook and set off on a second-hand mountain bike. Carrying only a change of clothes, …
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LONDON (Reuters) – British and Nigerian civil society groups have urged the British government to return funds confiscated from Nigerian politician James Ibori, a convicted fraudster, to his country in a swift and transparent way so the money can benefit ordinary Nigerians. In a letter to Britain’s home and foreign affairs ministers, a coalition of …
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DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) – Maintenance issues and climate change-induced water shortages have caused a 400-megawatt electricity shortfall in Tanzania, triggering power rationing across the East African nation, the state power supplier said. Tanzania’s national grid, which has an installed capacity of more than 1,900 MW, was suffering from broken infrastructure at gas wells and …
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KAMPALA (Reuters) – The consideration and passage by Uganda’s government of one of the world’s harshest anti-gay laws have unleashed a torrent of abuse against LGBTQ people, mostly committed by private individuals, rights groups said on Thursday. The Anti-Homosexuality Act (AHA), which was enacted in May, prescribes the death penalty for certain same-sex acts. At …
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