It has died at the age of 71 after a hard fight against cancer. Wangari Maathai received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004 for his struggle to promote a viable ecologocio in African development. Thanks to the green movement, which she founded in 1977, were planted 20 million trees in Kenya. Kenyan activist Wangari Maathai, winner of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize, has died of cancer, today announced the movement that she founded, green belt. Maathai died on Sunday, aged 71, at Nairobi hospital after a long and courageous fight against cancer, accompanied by their own, indicated the Agency on its website.
Maathai death is a great loss to all who knew her and those who admired his determination to make a world more peaceful, healthier and a better place, he added. Maathai, who had three sons and a granddaughter, was one of the first women of West Africa with a Chair University, with a doctorate in biology. In 1977 he founded the movement green belt, one of the most successful environmental protection programmes, which were planted in Kenya 20 million trees, especially by women. In 2004, when the Nobel Committee in Oslo announced the awarding of the prize to Maathai it stressed its position at the forefront of the fight to promote ecological development, that is viable socially, economically and culturally, in Kenya and in Africa. The Agency stressed that Maathai had a global approach to sustainable development that embraces democracy, human rights, and in particular the rights of women. Source of the news: dies the Nobel Prize Kenyan Wangari Maathai
