Africa-Press – Botswana. The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded today in Oslo, Norway, at a time when Europe is witnessing a new war after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which began almost eight months ago.
The fight against climate change and the war in Ukraine dominate the favorite topics in bookmakers before the announcement of the award, the only Nobel to be awarded by the Norwegian Nobel Committee.
The President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, the digital newspaper The Kyiv Independent or the Ukrainian people have emerged in the first places in the bookmakers, although their real chances are apparently slim.
The deadline for submitting applications ended on 31 January, almost a month before the start of Russian military intervention in Ukraine (on 24 February).
However, members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee can propose their own candidates at the Committee’s first meeting, which this year took place in early March.
Before announcing the winner, at 11:00 am in Oslo (10:00 am local time, the Nobel Committee only discloses the number of candidates, which this year was 343 (251 of which are individuals and 92 organizations). last year’s candidates and the second highest ever, the record being held by the 376 candidates nominated in 2016.
As in the other categories, the identities of the nominators and the nominees for the Nobel Peace Prize can only be disclosed 50 years after the nomination, as well as investigations and opinions related to the award of a prize.
Pope Francis, Russian activist Alexei Navalny, British Natural History documentary filmmaker David Attenborough, the World Health Organization (WHO), Belarusian dissident Svetlana Tsikhanouskaya or the International Court in The Hague are among the potential winners of the award this year. .
Also among the candidates for the award nominated by the international media are environmentalist Greta Thunberg, the Government of National Unity of Myanmar (formerly Burma), formed by opponents of the coup that took place last year, and Hong Kong activists Agnes Chow and Nathan Law.
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