Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Wangari Maathai Dies
NAIROBI, Kenya, Sep 26 – 2004 Nobel Peace prize winner and environmentalist Wangari Maathai has died while undergoing treatment at the Nairobi Hospital.
Prof Maathai succumbed to ovarian cancer at 11pm on Sunday night, just over a year since she was diagnosed with cancer, in July 2010.
The 71-year-old political activist is well known for her constant battles with government to protect Kenya’s forests.