Angela Merkel wins UN refugee prize


Former German chancellor Angela Merkel has won the United Nations refugee agency's prestigious Nansen Award, receiving praise for her determination to protect asylum seekers while in office. – EPA pic, October 4, 2022.

FORMER German chancellor Angela Merkel today won the United Nations refugee agency’s prestigious Nansen Award, receiving praise for her determination to protect asylum seekers while in office.  

Pointing to the more than 1.2 million refugees and asylum seekers welcomed by Germany in 2015 and 2016, at the height of migrant crisis sparked especially by the war in Syria, the UNHCR selection committee hailed Merkel’s “leadership, courage and compassion.”  


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