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Germany's First Black woman MP 'very honoured' to be elected

Eritrean-born Awet Tesfaiesus is one of the newly elected MPs of Germany's most diverse Bundestag to date.

Tanzanian writer Abdulrazak Gurnah reacts to winning the 2021 Nobel Prize for literature. Eritrean-born Awet Tesfaiesus is among the newly elected MPs of Germany's Bundestag. The BBC's Pumza Fihlani tells about the struggle against apartheid of Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who turns ninety today.

Photo: Awet Tesfaiesus. Credit: German Gren Party)

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Thu 7 Oct 202119:06GMT

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