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The World Food Program will be honored for its efforts in the fight against hunger and its contribution to improving the conditions of peace in conflict areas, committee chair Berit Reiss-Andersen said in announcing the award. Preventing hunger helps create stability and peace in the world. This is particularly important in times of the corona pandemic.
We are speechless!
Thank you @Nobel Prize for honoring the UN World Food Program (@WFP) with the #Nobel Peace Prize 2020.
Peace and #Zero hunger they go hand in hand: there is no security without a safe diet.
#Nobel Peace Prize https://t.co/WtI2ATjuZR– United Nations World Food Program (German) (@WFP_DE) October 9, 2020
Greta Thunberg as Topfavoritin
The field of candidates for the world’s most prestigious political award was wide this year; no clear favorites emerged beforehand. The World Health Organization (WHO) and climate activist Greta Thunberg were considered favorites in the betting shops.
Experts suspected that the award could be awarded to an organization of journalists or young activists from Sudan or Somalia. The Nobel institutions themselves keep the names of the candidates secret – this year there were 211 personalities and 107 organizations – secret for 50 years. This corresponds to the fourth highest number of nominations, but is well below the peak of 376 nominees in 2016.
How not to give the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize to Greta Thunberg?
Is this decision even valid despite the obvious error of the jury?– Armin Wolf (@ArminWolf) October 9, 2020
Nobel Peace Prize awarded in Oslo
The Nobel Peace Prize is the only one of all Nobel Prize winners that is announced and honored not in Stockholm, but in Oslo. The awards will be presented on December 10, the anniversary of the death of the inventor of dynamite and sponsor of the Alfred Nobel Prize. This year, this will take place in both Oslo and Stockholm due to the coronavirus pandemic in a different and much smaller environment. Last year, the Nobel Peace Prize went to Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, who was honored above all for his initiative to resolve the border conflict with neighboring Eritrea.
(Those: APA)
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