Two Liberians win Nobel Peace Prize

  1. Posted on Monday 10 October 2011 - 09:30
    AfricaNews editor
    AfricaNews Monitoring Team with files from BBC
    Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkul Karman of Yemen have been awarded this year's Nobel Peace Prize. The three women were recognised for their "non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women's rights to full participation in peace-building work".
    Leymah Gbowee
    Johnson Sirleaf is Africa's first female elected head of state, Ms Gbowee is a peace activist and Ms Karman is a leading figure in Yemen's pro-democracy movement.

    Announcing the prize in Oslo, Nobel Committee chairman Thorbjoern Jagland said: "We cannot achieve democracy and lasting peace in the world unless women achieve the same opportunities as men to influence developements at all levels of society."

    The women will share the $1.5m (£1m) prize money.

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