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Nobel committee chairwoman Berit Ress-Andersen announces that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2020 is awarded to the World Food Programme. SOUNDBITE
The Nobel Peace Prize is a 'call to action' to end hunger around the world, World Food Program executive director David Beasly tells journalists on a field trip in Niger after the Norwegion Nobel Committee chose the UN body as this year's recipient. SOUNDBITE
The Chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Berit Reiss-Andersen, announces that the Nobel Peace Prize 2019 goes to Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali "for his efforts to achieve peace and international cooperation", and "his decisive initiative to resolve the border conflict with neighbouring Eritrea". SOUNDBITE
The anti-nuclear weapons group the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) is awarded the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize. IMAGES
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2016 was awarded to American songwriter Bob Dylan during ceremony in Stockholm, Thursday. As explained by Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy Sara Danius, Dylan was awarded the prize "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition
President Juan Manuel Santos is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to end the 52-year-old war with FARC rebels in Colombia.