Guatemala swears in new president
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Alvaro Colom was sworn in on Monday as Guatemala's first leftist president in more than 50 years, promising to fight poverty in a nation where half the people live on less than $1 a day.
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Umaru Yar'Adua will be sworn in as Nigeria's new president, after the outgoing head made a final speech to the nation.
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Mahmoud Abbas was sworn in as Palestinian president on Saturday, already embroiled in crisis.
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KABUL, DECEMBER 7: Hamid Karzai was sworn in as Afghanistanâs first popularly elected President on Tuesday, promising to bring peace to the war-torn nation and end the economyâs dependence on narcotics.
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Anti-Bush protesters around the country marched, waved banners and chanted the names of the nation's war dead Thursday as the president was sworn in for a second term.
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HAMID Karzai was sworn in yesterday as Afghanistan&#39;s first popularly elected president, watched by an audience that included America&#39;s vice-president and defence secretary.
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Guatemala's president says organised crime gangs ordered the murder of four policemen  held in a top security jail.
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President Leonel Fernandez of the Dominican Republic is sworn in, vowing to slash government spending.
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Rebels greeted Alvaro Uribe's first inauguration as president in 2002 with an audacious mortar attack on the governing palace. But violence and crime are down sharply as Washington's closest ally in Latin America gets sworn in for a second term Monday.
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Hamid Karzai was sworn in as Afghanistan's first democratically elected president at a ceremony in the capital Kabul, witnesses said.
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Security, immigration and trade are on the agenda as George Bush visits Guatemala as part of his L America tour.
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President Bharrat Jagdeo was sworn in to a second term Saturday, pledging to work with the opposition to bridge racial divides in Guyana.
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Indonesia's new president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is being sworn into office in the capital Jakarta.
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Opposition leader Ernest Bai Koroma was sworn in as Sierra Leone's president on Monday after winning polls marked by violence and some fraud, prompting celebrations and looting in which at least one man was killed.
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ABUJA, Nigeria -- Nigeria's new president, Umaru Yar'Adua, was sworn in yesterday, pledging to be a humble "servant-leader" and to reform the electoral process to prevent future fraud, after the elections he won last month were widely condemned by international and local observers.
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US President George W Bush is sworn in for a second term promising to help end tyranny and uphold freedom.
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Guatemala's president on Tuesday ordered the national police to clean out corrupt officers and upgrade training after six members of the force were accused of killing three Central American Parliament members.