Abiy Ahmed receives the Nobel Peace Prize

Fifth stage of the Nobel season and undoubtedly the most awaited, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded this Friday in Oslo. Succeeding Congolese gynecologist Denis Mukwege and Yazidie Nadia Murad, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has been chosen by the Norwegian Nobel Committee.

The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded on Friday to Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, the architect of a spectacular reconciliation between his country and neighboring Eritrea.

Abiy is rewarded "for his efforts to achieve peace and for international cooperation, especially for his decisive initiative to resolve the border dispute with Eritrea," said the Nobel Committee Chair Norwegian, Berit Reiss-Andersen.

Greta Thunberg, the young Swedish muse of the fight against climate change, was the arch-favorite of the bookmakers. Donald Trump had also been proposed but his chances of receiving the prize were tiny.

The only Nobel awarded in Oslo, the prize for peace is announced the day after that of literature that has awarded in Stockholm the Polish Olga Tokarczuk for the year 2018 and for 2019 the Austrian Peter Handke, controversial character because of his pro-Serb positions during the war in the former Yugoslavia.

In a scandal #MeToo, the Swedish Academy had decided to postpone for a year the Nobel of literature 2018.

Medicine kicked off Monday with the pledge of two Americans William Kaelin and Gregg Semenza, as well as Briton Peter Ratcliffe, authors of discoveries on the adaptation of cells to lack of oxygen that open promising perspectives in the treatment of cancer and anemia.

The physics prize went on Tuesday to the Canadian-American James Peebles, who took his steps in those of Einstein to illuminate the origins of the universe, and the Swiss Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz who, first, revealed the existence of a planet outside the solar system.

On Wednesday, the Chemistry Prize honored three fathers of lithium-ion batteries – the American John Goodenough, the British Stanley Whittingham and the Japanese Akira Yoshino – present in many technologies (phones and laptops, electric cars .. .) Daily.

The economy price will close the season on Monday.

The laureates receive a check for 9 million crowns (830,000 euros), to be shared if necessary between recipients of the same prize, as well as a gold medal and a diploma.

The prize will be formally awarded on 10 December, the anniversary of the death of its founder, the Swedish industrialist and philanthropist Alfred Nobel (1833-1896).