CHALLENGES & SOLUTIONS
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"We have to punish the hard-core elements that resort to violence. We also have to take them through the process of the law" -Pres. Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf
Challenges
- When Charles Taylor was president, he used the country's diamonds to fuel the war in Sierra Leone, forced children into battle with the help of cocaine and other drugs, and also forced them to chop off limbs of thousands of men, women and children.
- Liberia is still lurking behind as a country and it runs the possiblity of relasping into another war.
- There is lack of running water, electricity and jobs due to the damage caused by the war.
- The unemployment and illiteracy rate is above eighty percent.
- There is a lot of pressure on Ms. Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf to rebuild this nation.
Solutions
- Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf has pledged to work towards reconciliation by bringing her former opponents into a government of national unity, if they are willing to join.
- Her administration has made significant progress in budgetary, expenditure and revenue management and control.
- The banking system has also been revived.
- She has increased the salaries of civil servants by seventy-three percent. Some of them had not been paid in almost five years.
- The government is in the process of building a new national police force and national army with the pictures and names of all new recruits published so that the public can identify members of the old guard who might be guilty of earlier human rights abuses.
- On March 15 2006, she addressed a joint meeting of the United States Congress asking for America’s support and help for her country.
