Denis Mukwege proud to help victims of abuse get new identity

Congolese doctor Denis Mukwege said on Friday he was in surgery when he heard the news he had been named a Nobel Peace Prize laureate.

"I can see in the faces of many women how they are happy to be recognised," Mukwege told the Nobel Foundation in a recorded interview posted on the foundation's Twitter account, referring to the patients at his Panzi hospital in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

(With inputs from agencies.)