DAILY GRAPHIC: I WILL UNITE LIBERIA

On the frontpage of the Daily Graphic, Ghana's highest circulating paper is a colourful picture of Charles Taylor being sworn-in as President of Liberia. The headline reads: I WILL UNITE LIBERIA *Taylor pledges at inauguration

According to the Graphic, Liberia's first post-war President, Mr Charles Ghankay Taylor, has called on his countrymen to let the blood ties tthat bind them be a factor of unity instead of being divided by ethnicity. He has, therefore, promised Liberian that there would be no witch hunting by his administration, no matter which warring faction or political party one belonged. In his inaugrual address, after being decorated as the 21st President of Liberia on Saturday before an emotionally charged audience in Monrovia, President Taylor declared that he is not President of his former militial group, NPFL nor the vitorious National Patriotic Party (NPP). "I am President of the whole Liberia" he decalred to a thunderous applause at the Centennial Memorial Pavilion. Consequently, he decalred the month of August as a period of national reconciliation and appealed to all Liberians to apologise to one another as a gesture of forgiving and forgeting the past, the Graphic reported.