Liberia: Ex-President Sirleaf Urges Legislature to Lead Constitutional Reform, Calls for Citizenship Rights for Non-Negroes in Historic Address

Monrovia — Former President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has called on the Liberian Legislature to spearhead a new wave of constitutional reforms, urging lawmakers to amend what she described as a “racist provision” in the Constitution that restricts citizenship to persons of Negro descent.

Delivering what observers described as a historic address to the House of Representatives, Sirleaf specifically referenced Article 27(b) of the 1986 Constitution, which states that “only persons who are negroes, or…