The Analyst (Monrovia)
6 July 2009
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf says the initiative to setup a single administrative structure to implement policy issues is not intended to cede sovereignty to the authority of the African Union (AU). The Liberian leader, who returned from the 13th Ordinary Session of Heads of State and Government of the African Union, held in Sirte, Libya, over the weekend, made the remarks in an intervention ...
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President Johnson-Sirleaf has demosntrated that she is a very wise woman. The issue of African integration is too important to be left to only a few countries. Liberia was part of the Monrovia group of the OAU and resisted efforts for integration, but now things have changed and Liberia is part of the Casablanca group or what I call the Sirte group. No one African country can survive in this globalized world, no matter how many resources they have. Please president Johnson-Sirleaf continue to work hard towards this goal and you will be remebered amongst the greats such as Nyere, Nkrumah and Selasie.