Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Monday formally launched her
government’s poverty reduction strategy with a call for more
international support. President Sirleaf said the program is not a
social welfare or a reinforced broadened safety road for the poor.
Lawrence Bropleh is Liberia’s minister of information. From the
Liberian capital, Monrovia, he told VOA that the new poverty reduction
strategy would serve as the government’s road map in meeting the needs
of the Liberian people.
“President Sirleaf came to power and her passion and
compassion are to improve the lives of every Liberian irrespective of
whence they’ve come. And so her poverty reduction strategy is one that
is going to guide us in our agriculture sector, to guide us in
rebuilding our economy, to guide us in improving our health care
delivery system, to guide in improving our education system,” he said.
ALEXANDRIA:Take
me over Cleopatra’s palace,” I asked the tour-boat operator on a
recent visit to Alexandria, Egypt’s Mediterranean metropolis. “No
problem,” the young Egyptian guide said. “You’ll see it all,
even the great lighthouse.”
It was a trip through
Alexandria’s old harbour. Supposedly, we would be able to gaze into the
deep and view sunken remains — Cleopatra’s royal residence as well
as a palace she built for liaisons with her lover, Marc Antony, along with
remnants of the Pharos lighthouse, and assorted sphinxes, columns and an
obelisk. The half- hour cruise, however, revealed nothing but murky water.
DURBAN:
Amidst continuing stalemate on the Indo-US nuclear deal with Left allies,
Congress President Sonia Gandhi has cut short her four-day visit to South Africa
beginning on Tuesday by dropping Durban from her itinerary.
"Due to circumstances beyond
our control, we have now arranged for the Congress President to visit only
Johannesburg and Cape Town," a spokesperson of the Indian High Commission told
reporters here.
Her trip to
Durban has been cancelled, the spokesperson said.
