Liberia: U.S. Ambassador Greenfield Challenges Liberians to Fight Corruption

The United States Secretary of State for African Affairs and former Ambassador to Liberia, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, has trumpeted the responsibility of Liberians to fight corruption, champion democracy and sustain the 13 year peace in the country.

Speaking to hundreds of students at the African Methodist Episcopal University (AMEU) yesterday, Ambassador Greenfield made reference to President Barack Obama's statement in Ethiopia last year that African economies are "hampered by nothing else other than the cancer of corruption."

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