NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Wangari Maathai, the first African woman recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, died after a long struggle with cancer, the environmental organization she founded said Monday.

A push by the Green Belt Movement has led to the suspension of a planned eco-camp in Nairobi’s Ngong forest, following public outcry over its legality, transparency and environmental impact.

Erbil has begun implementing its massive Green Belt project, a long-term plan to plant thousands of dunams of trees to combat ...

Amos Khaemba, a journalist at TUKO.co.ke, brings over four years of experience covering politics and current affairs in Kenya. Nairobi – The government has inducted 25,000 young people into its ...

The Green Belt Movement: Sharing the Approach and the Experience Wangari Muta Maathai. Lantern Books, $16 (117pp) ISBN 978-1-59056-040-2 ...

NAIROBI, Oct. 8 -- Wangari Maathai, a Kenyan activist who founded an Africa-wide movement that empowered women, confronted corrupt officials and planted millions of trees in ravaged forestland ...