My trip following
President Clinton in Africa continued today with stops in two west African countries.

We touched down in Liberia this morning and traveled the road from the airport to the capital of Monrovia with a security escort provided by United Nations peacekeepers. These peacekeepers have been in the country since 2003 to provide security following a brutal civil war that killed over 200,000 people. Considering the population of Liberia is only 3.5 million, these...