Ghana in Search of Regional Integration Agenda 74 Africa. To this may be added the problem of instability. In most places in Africa civil/military cycles and, at times, intra-state upheavals,(mostly leading to war and state implosion), have reversed gains made in integration. Wars in Somalia, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Rwanda, Burundi, D.R Congo, Sudan, Chad, Liberia, Sierra Leone and La Cote d'Ivoire have seriously affected the integrative projects to which these countries belong. Still linked to the issue of bad governance and instability is the problem of elite non complementarity. Both Mitrany and Joseph Nye stress the importance of elite socialisation in integration. Most often, some leaders in Africa undermine each other. The Libyan leader, Col. Muamar Gadthafi, is reputed to have sponsored several insurgencies across Africa, notable among them, the wars in Liberia and Sierra Leone. President Blaise Campaore of Burkina Faso has been accused of supporting the New Forces of La Cote d'Ivoire; he was similarly accused of undermining Benin during the reign of President Mathew Kerekou. At points in time, Jerry Rawlings of Ghana was not on talking terms with President Eyadema of Togo, Campaore of Burkina Faso, and Houphouet Boigny of the Ivory Coast. Presidents Idris Derby of Chad and Omar Bashir of Sudan are suspicious of each other, trading accusations of rebel support in each other's countries. President Museveni of Uganda has openly accused Khartoum of supporting the Lord's Resistance Army(LRA), led by Joseph Kone. It is the suspicions among Presidents Kagame of Rwanda, Museveni of Uganda, Mobutu(and thereafter Kabila) of D.R Congo, and Mugabe of Zimbabwe that nursed the crisis, in which six African nations went to war in 1997-98. In such a setting, talk about integration is a myth. The biggest roadblock to integration in Africa is the economic dependency status of many African countries. The economic weakness and relative stagnancy of African economies have very negative impact on government policies. This works against the viability and strength of sub-regional economic cooperation groupings in Africa. It is trite knowledge that a growing and active economy creates a more conducive environment for the promotion of economic cooperation and integration. It must be noted that Sub-Saharan Africa entered the 1990s poorer than it was in the 1970s and 1980s. African countries are faced with mounting economic problems: minimal or zero growth rates, low domestic savings and investment, scarcity of foreign exchange, balance-of-payments difficulties, and a heavy debt burden. Periods of economic stagnation are not a favourable time for formulating long-term plans, which promote intra-sub-regional/regional trade. Liberalising national markets and embarking on medium-term and long-term plans that establish multinational projects, sectoral linkages, and to develop programs of sub-regional harmonisation in the macroeconomic field become a more difficult enterprise during periods of economic decline or stagnation. In such circumstances, there is much pressure on governments to give priority to domestic crisis management and take protective measures against other countries, including the regulation of the domestic economy