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 WASHINGTON (AP) - Liberia's president looked back Tuesday on nine months as Africa's first elected woman president and spoke of significant political development, some economic advances but potential perils lurking.
Liberia has 2 million people living in a relatively small country, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf said. Three-fourths of its people live on less than $1 a day, half on less than 50 cents.
Still, she told an audience at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service, countries like hers "must show that freedom can deliver prospects and peace. Failure to do so would be more disastrous than we could imagine. In Liberia, the results would be catastrophic."
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