2019 Nobel Peace Prize

The 2019 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Abiy Ahmed Ali. The prize was announced by the Norwegian Nobel Committee in Oslo on 11 October 2019.

The citation

The citation reads: "for his efforts to achieve peace and international cooperation, and in particular for his decisive initiative to resolve the border conflict with neighbouring Eritrea".

The laureate

Abiy Ahmed Ali was born in 1976 in Beshasha, Ethiopia.

Why it matters

The Ethiopian prime minister ended a long border conflict with Eritrea and introduced political reforms at home.

The prize

The prize is worth 9 million Swedish kronor. It will be presented in Oslo on 10 December, the anniversary of the death of Alfred Nobel, the Swedish inventor of dynamite whose will founded the prizes in 1895.