US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton arrived in Liberia Monday morning, where she will attend the inauguration of President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, and preside over the opening of a new US embassy building. Hillary Clinton flies to neighboring Ivory Coast Monday afternoon, where she will meet with President Alassane Ouattara, who came to power last April, according to a report of the German Press Agency "DPA". Next on the whistle-stop tour of the region is Togo, where Clinton will become the first ever secretary of state to set foot in the francophone country. There, she will meet President Faure Gnassingbe. Togo won a seat on the UN Security Council for 2012. The trip concludes Tuesday in the island state of Cape Verde, which has been praised for its dramatic economic and development progress in recent years.
