Kenyan activist plants tree to mark Nobel prize
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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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It was a year in which Kenya claimed its rightful place on the world scene. The first woman ever to win a Nobel Peace Prize in Africa was a Kenyan and the country hosted a meeting of the UN Security Council.
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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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OSLO - African dancers and drummers transformed the traditionally sober Nobel Peace Prize ceremony into an African celebration Friday as Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai took centre stage to receive her award.
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OSLO, Norway The Nobel Peace Prize will, for the first time, be handed to an environmentalist. Wangari Maathai (wan-GAH&#39;-ree mah-DY) will formally receive the honor today in Oslo, Norway.
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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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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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In the first of a two-part series on Wangari Maathai, Kenyaâs and Africaâs first woman Nobel Peace Prize winner, religious writer Joseph Ngala traces her humble beginnings and story of courage that is bound to offer inspiration to a world that still
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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 ...
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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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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 black African woman to win a Nobel Prize in any category since the awards were first handed out 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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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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Calling humanity a threat to the planet, Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai urged democratic reform and an end to corporate greed after becoming the first African woman to collect the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday.
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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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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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Wangari Maathai started an movement that has planted 30 million trees in Africa and also has campaigned for women's rights.