In 2004, Kenyan Wangari Maathai became the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize. She was an environmentalist and human rights activist who founded the Green Belt Movement in the 1970s.

Professor Wangari Maathai contributed over many decades ... and security — for which she was awarded the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize. Born in Kenya, the daughter of farmers in the highlands of ...

Her courage and dedication was recognised in 2004, when she won a Nobel Peace Prize. Wangari Maathai was born in Kenya in 1940. Having studied biology and chemistry as a scholarship student in the ...

The late Wangari Maathai was the first African woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004. She was an environmentalist ...

With the sad news of Wangari Maathai's death on Sunday night (25 ... In 2004, Maathai became the first African woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for "unique forms of action [that] have ...

NAIROBI: This week we mark the fourth anniversary of the passing on of Nobel laureate Prof Wangari Maathai ... woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Indeed, the Norwegian Nobel Committee ...

Kenyan environmentalist and activist Wangari Maathai won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004 for her contributions to sustainable development, democracy, and peace. Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed ...

He added: "The new Wangari Maathai Garden and Trees reflects ... The environmentalist, who was the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, will be remembered for not only fighting ...

The Collaborative Partnership on Forests (CPF) launched the first Wangari Maathai Award in 2012 to honour the memory of Kenyan Nobel Laureate Wangari Maathai, who championed forests around the ...

Wangari Maathai was the first African woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her work on environmentalism and social justice. She was born in 1940 into a Kenya still under British colonial rule ...