How Dar voted in Malala prize

By Balazs Koranyi, Alister Doyle and Gwladys Fouche

OSLO (Reuters) – Pakistani teenager Malala Yousafzai, who was shot in the head by the Taliban in 2012 for advocating girls’ right to education, and Indian children’s right activist Kailash Satyarthi won the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday.

Yousafzai, aged 17, becomes the youngest Nobel Prize winner by far.

Satyarthi, 60, and Yousafzai were picked for their struggle against the oppression of children and young people, and for the right of...

It has only been five years since Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai wrote an anonymous diary about life under Taliban rule in north-west Pakistan.

The winning author receives a cash prize, a high-end device, with his or her published e-book promoted online and via digital media platforms

Nigeria’s most innovative telecommunications company, Etisalat (http://www.etisalat.com.ng), has announced the 2014 Flash Fiction Prize category of the Etisalat Prize for literature. This award category which is in line with the company’s goal of inspiring and encouraging creativity is designed to celebrate the short form of storytelling.

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One of the richest anecdotal sources is the Nobel Prizes ‘field,’ about which one can write volumes!

Despite Fifa's warning of a possible suspension, the Nigeria Football Federation are voted out of office following their World Cup exit.

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Tanzania voted into AU Peace, Security Council
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Tanzania has been re-elected to the Peace and Security Council (PSC) of the African Union (AU) for a two-year period up to 2016. Ethiopia was also voted in in the election conducted on Tuesday during the 24th Ministerial Council forum for AU. Tanzania was ...