UN World Food Program (WFP) receives 2020 Nobel Peace Prize
Berit Reiss-Andersen, President of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, announced the 2020 winner. Stian Lysberg Solum / NTB Scanpix
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The Norwegian Nobel Committee, which awards the prestigious award, received 318 nominations this year, of which around 100 concerned organizations.
A list that will remain secret for fifty years.
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After medicine, physics, chemistry, and literature, the Nobel Prize season ended this Friday, October 9 with the announcement of the 2020 Peace Prize winner. She is the president of the Norwegian Nobel committee Berit Reiss-Andersen who announced the name of the laureate in front of a very sparse audience, the Covid-19 pandemic obliges, in the great room of the Nobel Institute in Oslo.
As expected, it is therefore an organization that has been distinguished, the
World Food Program (WFP)
of the United Nations.
Because distinguishing a person is always risky, as shown by the example of Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, winner last year for ending the war with Eritrea, but contested today in his country where he canceled general elections.
WFP is recognized for “
its efforts to fight hunger, for its contribution to improving the conditions of peace in areas affected by conflict and for having played a leading role in efforts to prevent the use of hunger as a weapon of war,
”said Berit Reiss-Andersen.
For lack of a big favorite, Greta Thunberg, the climate activist, Swedish like Alfred Nobel, was also one of the personalities cited as possible laureates.
Just like German Chancellor Angela Merkel, cited for her policy of welcoming migrants.
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