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Nobel's Mukwege hears news in surgery as wild cheers erupt Bukavu, DR Congo, Oct 5 (AFP) Oct 05, 2018 Congolese doctor Denis Mukwege was operating on Friday when he learned he had won the Nobel Peace Prize, as crowds at his Panzi hospital erupted into ecstatic celebrations. In a video posted on the Facebook page of the hospital he founded in eastern DR Congo in 1999, crowds can be seen swarming the 63-tear-old doctor after he came out of the operating theatre, cheering and ululating wildly and hugging him as he slowly made his way past them. "I was in the operating room so when they started to make noise around (it) I wasn't really thinking about what was going on and suddenly some people came in and told me the news," Mukwege told Norwegian daily VG. Mukwege is nicknamed "Doctor Miracle" for his surgical skill and dedication in helping women overcome the injuries and trauma of sexual abuse and rape. He shared the Nobel with Yazidi campaigner Nadia Murad for their "for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict," Nobel committee chairwoman Berit Reiss-Andersen said in unveiling the winners in Oslo. bur-po/ach
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