The Nobel Peace Prize, first awarded in 1901, has this year gone to four civil society groups in Tunisia.

The winner is selected by the Norwegian Nobel Committee, on behalf of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel's estate, and awarded to whoever "shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses".

Over the years, 10 individuals from Africa have
been honoured for their efforts:

• 1960 South Africa's Albert Lutuli, president of the African National Congress:

"The Nobel Committee for the second time chose a
prize-winner who was being persecuted by his own
authorities"

• 1978 Egypt's President Anwar al-Sadat,
shared with Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin:

"After having taken the initiative in negotiating a
peace treaty between the two countries"

• 1984 South Africa's Desmond Tutu,
secretary-general of the South African Council of Churches - now emeritus Archbishop of Cape Town:

"The Committee has attached importance to
Desmond Tutu's role as a unifying leader figure in
the campaign to resolve the problem of apartheid
in South Africa"

• 1993 South Africa's anti-apartheid leader
Nelson Mandela, who became the country's
first democratically elected president, and apartheid President FW de Klerk:

"For their work for the peaceful termination of the
apartheid regime, and for laying the foundations for
a new democratic South Africa"

• 2001 Ghana's Kofi Annan, UN secretary
general, shared with the United Nations:

"For their work for a better organised and more
peaceful world"

• 2004 Kenya's Wangari Maathai, environmentalist and founder of the Green Belt Movement:

"For her contribution to sustainable development,
democracy and peace"

• 2005 Egypt's Mohamed ElBaradei, head of the UN's nuclear watchdog, shared with the
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA):

"For their efforts to prevent nuclear energy from
being used for military purposes and to ensure that
nuclear energy for peaceful purposes is used in
the safest possible way"

• 2011 Liberia's President Ellen Johnson
Sirleaf and peace activist Leymah Gbowee,
shared with Tawakkol Karman from Yemen:

"For their non-violent struggle for the safety of
women and for women's rights to full participation
in peace-building work"

• 2015 Tunisia's National Dialogue Quartet, a group of four organisations: the Tunisian General Labour Union, the Tunisian Confederation of Industry, Trade and Handicrafts, the Tunisian Human Rights
League, and the Tunisian Order of Lawyers:

"For its decisive contribution to the building of a
pluralistic democracy in Tunisia in the wake of the
Jasmine Revolution of 2011.

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