Ethiopia's Abiy returns from Nobel ceremony Crowds gather in Addis Ababa to welcome Ethiopian Prime minister Abiy Ahmed after he won the Nobel Peace prize in Norway. Abiy won the Nobel in large part for reaching out to Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki last year, creating momentum for a deal that formally ended a two-decade stalemate stemming from the two countries' 1998-2000 border war. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES from people welcoming the PM