Nobel peace prize for woman of 30m trees
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Wangari Maathai, the Kenyan who created a women&#39;s movement which has planted more than 30m trees in 20 countries, became the first African woman to win the Nobel peace prize yesterday.
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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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Nobel laureate Wangari Maathai said she hopes being the first environmentalist to win the prize will help others understand that the struggle to protect the Earth's resources is linked to the promotion of peace.
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Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize winner, Wangari Maathai, Monday spoke against widespread practices, such as forest farming, that, she says, are responsible for deforestation in her country.
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Tom Cruise and Oprah Winfrey are to host the annual Nobel Peace Prize concert in Norway on Saturday. Joss Stone and Andrea Bocelli will sing at the event in honour of this year&#39;s peace prize winner, Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai, 64.
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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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Oct. 8, 2004 - Today Wangari Maathai was named the winner of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize for her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace.
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Wangari Muta Maathai, the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, was honoured Friday for her efforts to help women, clean up the environment and battle corruption.
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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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In the second part of a special report on Kenya&#39;s first Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai, religious writer Joseph Ngala recounts her environmental crusade through the Green Belt Movement and how a tree-planting campaign turned into a bitter
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Wangari Maathai, Kenya&#39;s Deputy Environmental Minister and a former head of the National Council of Women of Kenya, became the first African woman to win the Nobel Prize last Friday for her work on issues such as education, nutrition, and women&#39;s rights.
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The first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, environmental activist Wangari Maathai, received her award Friday to the beat of drums and
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A Kenyan environmental activist whose children graduated from Hobart and William Smith Colleges was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in Norway today.
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A Kenyan environmentalist and human rights campaigner has been awarded the Nobel peace prize, becoming the first African woman to win the prestigious award since it was created in 1901.
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IHURURU, Kenya Oct. 8, 2004 - When Wangari Maathai got word she had won the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, she was campaigning to protect Kenya&#39;s forests and distributing food to villagers suffering from
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Nobel Peace Prize winner, Kenyan ecologist Wangari Maathai, 64, who on Friday accepted the award in Oslo with a speech lauding a clean, sustainable environment as a key to peace, has spent much of her life defending Africa&#39;s forests.
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OSLO (Norway): This year&#39;s Nobel Peace Prize announc ed in Oslo on Friday goes to the Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai.