GENEVA: Former German chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday won the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees' (UNHCR) prestigious Nansen Award 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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