- 12 Oct 2012 16:52 - Sapa-AFP
- The decision to award the Nobel Peace Prize to the crisis-torn EU has sparked a stunned Twitter backlash, although some netizens came to its defence.
- 10 Dec 2011 14:40 - Staff Reporter
- Liberia's President and Africa's first female head of state, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, has said that she was eager to see a woman in the White House.
- 14 Oct 2011 16:52 - Adekeye Adebajo
- The awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to Ellen Johnson Sirleaf must count as one of the most political acts in the history of the prize.
- 09 Oct 2011 17:52 - Fran Blandy
- Liberia buzzed with election fever as Nobel laureates, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and women's activist Leymah Gbowee took to the streets.
- 08 Oct 2011 17:01 - Fran Blandy
- Liberians are weighing the impact of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf's Nobel Peace Prize victory which has been slammed as an unfair boost ahead of elections.
- 08 Oct 2011 14:44 - Otto Bakano
- Hundreds of mourners gathered for the funeral of Kenyan environmentalist and Nobel laureate Wangari Maathai at a park in central Nairobi.
- 07 Oct 2011 11:25 - Staff Reporter
- Three women who have campaigned for rights and an end to violence in Liberia and Yemen, including Liberia's president, have won the Nobel Peace Prize.
- 07 Oct 2011 09:04 - Bjoern H Amland
- Arab Spring or EU? Speculation ahead of the Nobel peace prize announcement on Friday is split after cryptic comments by the award committee's chair.
- 01 Mar 2011 14:09 - Bjoern Amland
- A record 241 nominations were submitted for the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize and the Norwegian jury has now begun the secretive process to select a winner.
- 02 Feb 2011 19:49 - Wojciech Moskwa
- Anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks has been nominated for the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize, the Norwegian politician behind the proposal said on Wednesday.
- 09 Dec 2010 11:06 - Staff Reporter
- A Chinese group awarded its own "peace prize" on Thursday, just a day before the Nobel Committee was set to honour jailed China dissident Liu Xiaobo.
- 07 Dec 2010 11:48 - Dan Martin
- China unleashed a fresh diatribe on Tuesday ahead of the ceremony honouring Nobel peace laureate Liu Xiaobo.
- 09 Nov 2010 16:48 - Staff Reporter
- China has asked Japan not to attend a Nobel Peace Prize ceremony honouring Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo.
- 14 Oct 2010 08:12 - Marianne Barriaux
- China faced fresh criticism on Thursday over its angry reaction to dissident Liu Xiaobo's Nobel Prize.
- 11 Oct 2010 13:38 - Verashni Pillay
- Once SA was the kind of country whose leaders were awarded Nobel Peace Prizes. Now we side with governments who crack down on those who get them.
- 11 Oct 2010 10:47 - Chris Buckley
- The Nobel Peace Prize for Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo showed the West cannot stomach the idea of China's rise, state media said on Monday.
- 11 Oct 2010 07:25 - Staff Reporter
- More than 30 Chinese intellectuals have been detained or placed under house arrest in a crackdown to stifle celebration of the Nobel Peace Prize.
- 09 Oct 2010 08:12 - Staff Reporter
- The announcement of the Nobel Peace Prize provoked a furious reaction from authorities, who warned that the decision would hurt relations with Norway.
- 08 Oct 2010 12:01 - Wojciech Moskwa
- Jailed Chinese pro-democracy activist Liu Xiaobo won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for decades of non-violent struggle for human rights.
- 27 Feb 2009 12:40 - Staff Reporter
- A record 205 candidates are in the running for this year's Nobel Peace Prize, the Nobel Institute said on Friday.
