MONDAY: Former President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has been honored by the United Nations Association of New York for her work in promoting the Sustainable Development Goals.
A release is from the office of the former Liberian leader is quoted as saying that Madam Sirleaf was honored alongside SAP CEO, Bill McDermott, Kofi Annan (post-mortem) and Sophie Gregoire Trudeau, wife of Canadian Prime Minister.
Hours later, the former president co-chaired the Board Meeting of Emerging Public Leaders, a program designed to train and mentor young Africans whom are dedicated to public service in Africa and then as a participating board member in a meeting of the International Crisis Group in New York.
Whilst in the United Kingdom during the week, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf participated in a Board Meeting of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation, and then keynoted the 2018 Annual Lecture of the Royal African Society.
She also met with Harriett Baldwin, UK’s Minister of State for Africa at the UK Parliament and reemphasized the need for continuous support to Liberia.
The former President also traveled to Brussels to launch a high-level group of personalities for effective and strategic EU-African relations, with a focus on jobs, growth, and the challenge of young unemployment.
She will end her visit tomorrow when she travels to Edinburgh, Scotland, and to have a general discussion on Africa with David Pilling, the Africa’s editor of the Financial Times, the release.
