International

East African Activist Wins Nobel Peace Prize

By Jason Beaubien, Renee Montagne

Published October 7, 2004 at 9:00 PM PDT

This story was published more than 20 years ago.

The Nobel Foundation announces that an environmental and political activist from Kenya has won the 2004 Nobel Peace prize. Wangari Maathai founded the Green Belt Movement in 1977. She recently gained notice for a campaign to plant 30 million trees to combat deforestation. NPR's Renee Montagne talks to NPR's Jason Beaubien.

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Jason Beaubien

Jason Beaubien is a Peabody award-winning journalist. He's filed stories from more than 60 countries around the world. His reporting tends to focus on issues in lower-income countries. Often his reports highlight inequities, injustices and abuses of power. He also regularly writes about natural disasters, wars and human conflict. Over the last two decades he's covered hurricanes in the Caribbean, typhoons in the Philippines, multiple earthquakes in Haiti, the Arab Spring, the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the drug war in Mexico.

Renee Montagne

Renee Montagne, one of the best-known names in public radio, is a special correspondent and host for NPR News.