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Speaking before a joint meeting of the United States Congress on March 15, 2006, Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf asked for American support to help her country "become a brilliant beacon, an example to Africa and the world of what love of liberty can achieve."
"The people of Liberia and the people of the United States are bound together by history and by values," Sirleaf said. "But our ties greatly exceed the historical connection," she said. She
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Prior to visiting five African countries in July 2003, President George W. Bush was interviewed by AllAfrica's Charles Cobb, Jr. and three other reporters. The six-day trip includes stops in Senegal, South Africa, Botswana, Uganda and Nigeria. In October, Cobb joined three other journalists in the White House's Roosevelt Room to question Bush about the upcoming state visit by President Mwai Kibaki of Kenya.
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An examination of U.S. policy towards Liberia, in the midst of civil war, a crisis that - with the Berlin Wall coming down and the Soviet Union entering its final days - put post-Cold War U.S. foreign policy to an early test. Investigation by Reed Kramer
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