"The referendum was not a vote for or against peace," the Nobel committee said Friday, insisting the peace process wasn't dead. In Bogota, 20 activists who were camped out Friday in front of Colombia's congress to demand the peace deal not be scuttled shouted "Peace deal now!" Ban on Friday called this year's Nobel Peace Prize a "timely message" to all people working toward national reconciliation. Last year's peace prize went to Tunisia's National Dialogue Quartet for its efforts to build a pluralistic democracy. The 2016 Nobel Prize announcements continue with the economics prize on Monday and the literature award on Thursday.

Source: New Strait Times October 07, 2016 14:03 UTC