Kenyan media jubilant at Nobel win
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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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IHURURU, Kenya - When Wangari Maathai got word she had won the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, she was campaigning to protect Kenya's forests and distributing food to villagers suffering from drought - the same work she's been doing for decades.    Maathai was in the countryside - just one hill away from her childhood home - when told she had won the $1.3 million prize, joining a club that includes Nelson Mandela, Kofi Annan and the Dalai Lama...
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Royalty, scientists, business leaders and diplomats began gathering in the capitals of Sweden and Norway on Friday for the traditional twin ceremonies honoring the year's Nobel Prize winners from Kenya, ...
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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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Acclaimed Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk said on Sunday writing made him childishly happy as he and six American academics received their Nobel prizes in Stockholm.
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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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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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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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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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Kenya's Wangari Maathai wins this year Nobel Peace Prize, the first African woman to do so.
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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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Wangari Maathai, a Kenyan woman who started an environmental movement that has planted 30 million trees in Africa and who has campaigned for women&#39;s rights and greater democracy in her home country, won the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize yesterday.
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Crying with delight, Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai planted a tree to celebrate winning the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday and vowed to use the money
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Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai  became the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize on  Friday, honored for her work planting tens of millions of trees  to save the environment. The award marks a new theme in  interpreting the 1895 will of Sweden's Alfred Nobel, who  founded the prize.
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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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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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The dance troupe at the Outspan Hotel at the foot of Mount Kenya lost both its audience and its rhythm on Friday, when it was upstaged by tearful eco-warrior Wangari Maathai, delighted at being named this year&#39;s winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.