Kenyan Environmentalist Wins Nobel Peace Prize
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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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Pitt alumnae Wangari Muta Maathai has been awarded the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize, making her the first African woman to receive the award.
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Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai has become the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize for aiding the continent&#39;s poor with a campaign to plant millions of trees to slow down deforestation.
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Nobel Peace Prize laureate Wangari Maathai defended her selection as the first environmentalist to win the prestigious award, saying Thursday it would help others understand that the struggle for peace begins with protecting the
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(AGI) - Rome, Italy, 8 October. - The Nobel Peace Prize awarded to the Kenyan, Wangari Maathai, founder and head of &quot;Green Belt&quot; constitutes &quot;a choice of great importance that tends to raise the importance
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OSLO: Kenyan ecologist Wangari Maathai, who yesterday received the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize at a ceremony in Oslo, said protecting the environment was vital to promote peace and democracy.
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Wangari Maathai, the Kenyan firebrand who mobilized the women of Africa in a powerful crusade against deforestation called the "Green Belt Movement," will receive the Nobel Peace Prize for 2004.
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A Kenyan woman who has spent her life fighting for the environment of her home country won the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday. Wangari Maathai (pronounced wan-GAH-ree mah-DHEYE) founded the &quot;Green Belt Movement
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Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki on Friday congratulated Wangari Maathai, the assistant minister for environment and natural resources, for becoming the first African woman to win
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The first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize was today presented with her award in Oslo against a backdrop of drums and dancers.
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OSLO, Oct. 8. - The Kenyan environmental activist, Ms Wangari Maathai, has won the Nobel Peace prize for her work as leader of the Green Belt Movement, which has sought to empower women, improve the environment
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WHEN Wangari Maathai got word she had won the Nobel Peace Prize, she was busy with the work that earned her the prestigious award - campaigning to protect Kenya&#39;s forests and distributing food to hungry constituents suffering from drought.
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Kenyan environmental activist Wangari Maathai, who Wednesday became the first-ever African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, has worked for decades to protect Africa&#39;s dwindling forests.
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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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Kenya's Wangari Maathai urged a fight against deforestation on Wednesday on her arrival in Oslo to collect the Nobel Peace Prize amid controversy about whether the award has lost its way by embracing environmentalism.
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Wangari Maathai of Kenya won this year&#39;s Nobel Peace Prize for her work to promote democracy, protect the environment and improve social conditions in Africa, said the Norwegian Nobel Committee.
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Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai became the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for leading a campaign to plant tens of millions of trees across Africa to slow deforestation.