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Cape Town, SOUTH AFRICA: Kenyan Nobel peace prize winner Professor Wangari Maathai holds, 21 July 2005, a tree that she planted in the Newlands forest, during her visit to an environmental project in Cape town. Prof. Mathai is the Kenyan assistant minister, Environment, Natural Resources and Wildlife and the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace prize. She was awarded the 2004 Nobel peace prize for “her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace in Kenya”. Maathai founded her now famous Green Belt Movement in 1977 while she was director of the Kenyan red cross. The non government grassroots movement focuses on environmental education, community development and the empowerment of women. AFP PHOTO/GIANLUIGI GUERCIA (Photo credit should read GIANLUIGI GUERCIA/AFP/Getty Images)

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