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| The United
States First Lady Laura Bush (l)attends the inauguration of Liberia's
first female President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf(r). on
Monday. | ACCRA, Jan. 16 (Xinhuanet)
-- The United States First Lady Laura Bush on Monday returned to Accra from
Monrovia, Liberia, after attending the inauguration of Liberia's first female
President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf.
The inauguration, which signified the end of more
than 13-years of civil war in that country, attracted several other
international dignitaries, including Ghanaian President JohnAgyekum Kufuor and
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice.On Tuesday, the U.S. first lady would
speak at the Accra Teacher Training College on "Teacher Training and Education"
and also visit the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital and meet women and girls HIV/AIDS
patients.
She would later hold talks with President John
Agyekum Kufuorat the Castle.
Bush would fly out of Accra on Tuesday to Abuja,
Nigeria, where she is expected to meet with President Olusegun Obasanjo, visit a
hospital and a school and participate in a round table at the National Center
for Women Development.
Bush, 60, is the second U.S. first lady to visit
Ghana in eight years after Hillary Rodham Clinton, who accompanied his husband,
Bill, to Ghana in March 1998. Enditem |
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