Wangari Maathai to receive the Nobel Peace Prize 2004 on Friday
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Professor and environmental activist Wangari Maathai from Kenya will receive the Nobel Peace Prize 2004 later on Friday. The Prize will be presented at the Oslo City Hall, by the Chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee at 13:00 local time.
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Speculation grows ahead of the announcement of the 2004 winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai  became the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize on  Friday, honored for aiding democracy and seeking to save the  continent's shrinking forests.
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OSLO, Dec 10 (IPS) - Kenyan ecologist Wangari Maathai, 64, is the first  African woman to take the Nobel, and never before has an  environmental cause been honoured by the Nobel committee since  the prize was first awarded in 1901.
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Kenya's Wangari Maathai wins this year Nobel Peace Prize, the first African woman to do so.
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OSLO -- Nobel Peace Prize laureate Wangari Maathai defended being chosen as the first environmentalist to win the award, saying yesterday that it would help others understand the importance of protecting the world's resources.
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64 year-old Wangari Maathai, a Kenyan environmental advocate and woman, received the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize despite 194 candidates.
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Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai  became the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize  Friday for aiding the continent's poor with a campaign to plant  millions of trees to slow down deforestation.
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Wangari Maathai, a Kenyan environmentalist, today became the first African woman to win the Nobel peace prize. Ms Maathai, 64, Kenya&#39;s deputy environment minister, heads the Green Belt movement, a group that
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Nobel Peace Prize laureate Wangari Maathai tells the BBC she wrote her autobiography to give hope to others.
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To the beat of African drums, Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai received her Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, telling the audience of royals, celebrities and diplomats that protecting the world's resources is ...
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Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai became the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize Friday for leading a campaign to plant tens of millions of trees across Africa to slow deforestation.
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[World News]: Oslo, Oct 8 : Kenya&#39;s environmentalist Wangari Maathai has won the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize &quot;for her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace,&quot; the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced Friday.
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Wangari Maathai of Kenya became the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize for her work to promote democracy, protect the environment and improve social conditions.
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Wagari Maathai, recipient of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize, has long fought&#151;and sometimes suffered&#151;to protect the environment and human rights in Africa. A journalist recalls an encounter with the Kenyan 13 years ago.
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OSLO, Norway The Nobel Peace Prize will, for the first time, be handed to an environmentalist. Wangari Maathai (wan-GAH&#39;-ree mah-DY) will formally receive the honor today in Oslo, Norway.
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OSLO, Norway - Kenyan environmental activist Wangari Maathai won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for her work as leader of the Green Belt Movement, which has sought to empower women, improve the environment and fight corruption in Africa for almost 30 years.    Maathai, Kenya's deputy environment minister, is the first black African woman to win a Nobel Prize in any category since the awards were first handed out in 1901...