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President and prime minister among thousands paying their last respects to Africa's first female Nobel laureate Maathai.
Africa Last Modified: 08 Oct 2011 07:18 GMT
The life of Nobel peace laureate Wangari Mathaai was dedicated to the environment by planting trees for peace.
Opinion Last Modified: 03 Oct 2011 12:36 GMT
Africa's first women Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai dies in Nairobi while receiving cancer treatment, aged 71.
Africa Last Modified: 26 Sep 2011 06:28 GMT
The first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize talks about her work.
Frost Over the World Last Modified: 15 Apr 2007 09:40 GMT
Writing off Africa's debt, boosting aid and improving trade conditions are not enough to bring the continent out of poverty, Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai has said. 
Archive Last Modified: 06 Jul 2005 10:10 GMT
Kenyan Nobel Peace laureate Wangari Maathai has been elected president of the interim general assembly of the new African Union's Economic, Social and Cultural Council (Ecosocc).
Archive Last Modified: 29 Mar 2005 07:53 GMT
Kenyan ecologist Wangari Maathai has been awarded the Nobel Peace prize for 2004 at a ceremony in Oslo.
Archive Last Modified: 10 Dec 2004 12:50 GMT
Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai has become the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize for aiding the continent's poor with a campaign to plant millions of trees.
Archive Last Modified: 08 Oct 2004 17:32 GMT
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