Kenyan president congratulates Maathai for winning Nobel Peace ...
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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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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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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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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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Environmental activist and deputy minister of Kenya, Wangri Maathai, won this year&#39;s Nobel Peace Prize. She is the first African lady to obtain this rare honour.
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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, better the environment and fight corruption in Africa for almost 30 years.    Maathai, Kenya's deputy environment minister, is the first African woman to win the prize since it was first awarded in 1901...
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Kenya&#39;s environmentalist Wangari Maathai said Friday that she feels &quot;very excited&quot; to win the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize and pledges to continue to plant the seeds of peace with her fellow Kenyans.
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Sometimes what at first seems like a minor change can actually signal major shift in understanding. Last week, Kenyan deputy environment minister Wangari Maathai won the Nobel Peace Prize - a wonderful achievement for two reasons.
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Oslo - Kenyan ecologist Wangari Maathai will receive the Nobel Peace Prize for 2004 on Friday at a ceremony in Oslo, making her the first African woman and first environmentalist to receive the prestigious award.
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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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LONDON (CBS.MW) -- Kenyan tree planter and government minister Wangari Maathai has won the Nobel Peace Prize, Agence France-Presse said.
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The award of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize to ecologist Wangari Maathai dominated the Kenya media as soon as the news broke. TV and radio channels on Friday reported the announcement extensively and Saturday&#39;s newspapers are similarly ecstatic.
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Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari  Maathai dismissed critics on Thursday who say ecology has too  little to do with peace to merit the award. She said most wars  are fought over natural resources.
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Cape Town - Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang was among the first South Africans on Friday to congratulate Kenyan deputy environment minister Wangari Maathai on being the first African women to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Nobel Peace show host Oprah Winfrey smiles in the Oslo Town Hall where Nobel laureate Wangari Maathai of Kenya is to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, Friday, Dec. 10, 2004.
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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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NAIROBI, Kenya  - Kenyan environmentalist Wangari  Maathai said Friday she had been told by a Norwegian diplomat  that she had won the Nobel Peace Prize.