Nobel peace prize winner Maria Ressa has taken up the fight against deepfake, a threat to journalism and democracy
While Kissinger’s intellectual gifts were begrudgingly acknowledged, he remains deeply controversial for his ruthless philosophy of realpolitik
People continue to suffer from among other things unemployment, poor quality education, unaffordable health care and gender-based violence
The death of apartheid’s last leader means some questions now remain forever unanswered
FW De Klerk died in his home having suffered from cancer
What a difference a year makes.
No one knows how many Ethiopians are in South Africa — but Abiy knows he needs their support
Myanmar’s leader personally faces allegations while avoiding the task of changing the country’s trajectory
The prime minister may have won the Nobel Peace Prize but he has failed to quell the violence in his own backyard
The violence is unfolding ahead of elections next year in one of the country’s most volatile and ethnically diverse areas
In just 18 months the prime minister has transformed his country and the region
The gynecologist was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his work in helping victims of sexual violence in the DRC
The Congolese doctor won the Nobel prize for his work to end sexual violence in war and is considered an expert on gang rape in conflict
The London-based global human rights organisation said it was revoking the Ambassador of Conscience Award it gave Suu Kyi in 2009
Denis Mukwege is a medic based in the DRC, and he and his staff have helped thousands of victims abused in its prolonged and bloody wars.
Malala visited the Swat valley for her first trip back to the once militant-infested Pakistani region where she was shot in the head by the Taliban
The UN says 87 000 members of persecuted Muslim community have crossed into Bangladesh since violence erupted on August 25.
Juan Manuel Santos won in a surprise choice after Colombians voted "No" to an agreement he signed with Marxist rebels to end 52 years of war.
Its brokers have earned their Nobel peace prize acclaim, but the truce in Tunisia is a brittle and fragile thing.
In an open letter to world leaders ahead of receiving her Nobel Peace Prize, activist Malala Yousafzai asks world leaders to raise their ambition.
Indian national Kailash Satyarthi and Pakistan’s Malala Yousafzai have won the 2014 Nobel Peace prize for advocating children’s rights.
A Cape Town summit of Nobel peace laureates has been cancelled after too many delegates pulled out over South Africa denying the Dalai Lama a visa.
Nobel Peace Laureates have asked President Jacob Zuma to guarantee the Dalai Lama entry to SA, saying a refusal could damage the image of the country.
The international relations department has confirmed that Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama made a visa application for entry to SA.
The OPCW, a chemical weapons watchdog supervising the destruction of Syria’s arsenal, has won the Nobel Peace prize.
Nobel laureate is scathing about the inequity of the country’s boom.
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.
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.
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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.
Liberia buzzed with election fever as Nobel laureates, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and women’s activist Leymah Gbowee took to the streets.
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.
Hundreds of mourners gathered for the funeral of Kenyan environmentalist and Nobel laureate Wangari Maathai at a park in central Nairobi.