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Article: Hillary Clinton, in Liberia, targets good government.(WORLD)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- August 13, 2009
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Byline: Scott Baldauf Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
Johannesburg, South Africa -- Until a few years ago, Liberia was not the sort of place a US secretary of State would generally visit. Riven by a brutal civil war from the late 1990s until 2003, that killed nearly 250,000 and maimed countless others, Liberia was the poster child of senseless conflicts.
But protected by a United Nations protection force, and led by a woman president, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, since 2006 elections, Liberia has begun a healing process that makes it a cause for celebration, if not exactly a model for resolving other African conflicts.
There are plenty ...