Now to Olso, Norway, where this year's Nobel Peace Prize was announced just about an hour ago.<br />The much coveted award went to... Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed... for his efforts to end border conflict with neighboring Eritrea while strengthening democracy in his country through political reform.<br />He is mostly recognized for brokering a peace deal with Eritrea... that ended a war between the two African nations that raged on for two decades.<br />Ahmed becomes the 100th winner of the prestigious award, and he is slated to receive a cash prize of nine million Swedish crowns, or nine-hundred-thousand U.S. dollars.<br />There has been a great deal of expectations over who would receive the prize, with Greta Thunberg, a 16-year-old Swedish climate change activist, widely tipped among the favorite candidates.<br />Prime Minister Ahmed, during his visit to South Korea in August, mentioned the resemblance that Ethiopia-Eritrea relations have with inter-Korean relations, saying he hopes to see an improvement in Seoul-Pyeongyang ties, just as Ethiopia and Eritrea thawed their decades-long crisis.<br />
