Kenya's new President Mwai Kibaki has named Dr. Newton Kulundu as Environment Minister and Professor Wangari Maathai as assistant minister. Maathai was elected to Parliament in Kenya on December 27 on the opposition National Rainbow Coalition (NARC) ticket. Maathai is a world-renowned environmentalist, who rose to fame for her spirited campaigns against government backed forest clearance.
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