Africa Notes: A Conversation With Liberia’s Interim President - Dr. Amos Sawyer - October 1991

This issue of CSIS Africa Notes shares with our subscribers an October 9, 1991 "conversation" between Dr. Amos C. Sawyer and 96 invited guests. Dr. Sawyer returned to Liberia in 1990 following a period of exile in the United States to serve as head of an "Interim Government of National Unity" pending elections now projected for 1992. He was chosen to fill this transitional role at an extraordinary meeting of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and various Liberian groups convened in Banjul, Gambia in August 1990. (For background, see "Some Key Dates in Liberia's Political History" on page 3.)