Campaigners vow to confront ‘cancers’ Maathai struggled to contain in Africa

Africa needs to remain focused and continue following the late Wangari Maathai’s initiatives for environmental sustainability to address climate change across the continent, environmentalists say. (Read: Even in ill health, Maathai remained a strong fighter)

Prof Maathai, the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, in 2004, was founder of the Green Belt Movement , which aimed to reforest Kenya, stop soil erosion and provide firewood for families by paying poor women to plant trees.
She passed away on September 25.