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From Nobel Prize to fighting former comrades: Ethiopia's PM Abiy

Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed

Dressed in a sharp black suit in front of an illustrious audience, Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed strode onto stage at Oslo’s ornate City Hall on December 10, 2019 to accept the Nobel Peace Prize.

“War is the epitome of hell - I know because I have been there and back,” he said, recalling time as a young soldier in a 1998-2000 border war with Eritrea where tens of thousands died in trenches and minefields on scrubland.

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