Kenyan Green Activist Wins Nobel Peace Prize
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Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai  became the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize on  Friday, honored for aiding democracy and seeking to save the  continent's shrinking forests.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai receives the Nobel Peace Prize from Nobel chairman Ole Danbolt Mjos in Oslo City Hall.
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She was cited for her work as leader of the Green Belt Movement, which has planted more than 30 million trees across Africa. Professor Wangari is the seventh African to win the prize, worth $1.
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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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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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The first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize accepted her award on Friday. She urged her audience &quot;to embrace the whole creation in all its diversity, beauty and wonder.
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NPR.org, October 8, 2004 Â· Kenyan environmental activist and human rights campaigner Wangari Maathai has been awarded the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize.
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The first African woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize said Tuesday that people must help "the Earth to heal her wounds." Environmental activist Wangari Maathai accepted her gold medal, diploma and $1.5 million ...
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BERLIN - The German government, in which pro-environment Greens share power, applauded the choice Friday of Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai as this year&#39;s Nobel Peace Prize winner.
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Kenyan Deputy Environment Minister Wangari Muta Maathai has been named winner of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize, beating a number of much better known world names to the prestigious award.
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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