DR Congo on Friday congratulated crusading Nobel Peace Prize winner Denis Mukwege for his "very important work" in healing rape victims but accused him of mixing humanitarian work and politics.
Mukwege was operating at his hospital in the country's east when the news broke, sparking cheers and wild ululations from his co-workers and admirers who hugged 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.
The 63-year-old has regularly spoken out against a spike in sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo and criticised long-serving President Joseph Kabila, who is due to step down in December after prolonging his mandate, saying: "We are governed by people who don't love us."
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