Kenyan Ecologist Maathai wins Nobel Peace Prize
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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.
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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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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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Prof Wangari Maathai took to the world stage in a defining moment yesterday and received the 2004 edition of the world&#39;s most coveted award, the gold Nobel Peace Prize, at an elaborate ceremony in Oslo, Norway.
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Wangari Muta Maathai, founder of Africa&#39;s Green Belt Movement, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, becoming the first African woman to win the world&#39;s most prestigious civilian honor.
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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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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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Wangari Maathai won the Nobel Peace Prize today for her work as leader of an organization that has planted more than 30 million trees across Africa.
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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 African woman to win the prize, first awarded in 1901...
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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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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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By Sara Newman  Wangari Maathai, 66, the first woman in east and central Africa to earn a doctorate degree, received the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize for developing the Green Belt Movement.
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OSLO -- The first African woman and the first Kenyan to win the Nobel Peace Prize, environmental activist Wangari Maathai, received her award yesterday to the beat of drums and dancers that broke with the usual stodgy ceremony.
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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.
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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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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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Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai  became the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize on  Friday, honored for fighting poverty by trying to save the  continent's shrinking forests.