Kabila sworn in as Congo president
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KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo -- After decades of dictatorship and wars, Congo yesterday swore in its first freely elected president since 1960, installing the son of a rebel leader who promised a new era of order and better days ahead.
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Hamid Karzai was sworn in today as Afghanistan&#39;s first democratically elected president. In a solemn ceremony at the restored royal palace in Kabul, with Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld in attendance, Hamid
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Hamid Karzai was set to be sworn in on Tuesday as the country&#39;s first popularly elected president at a ceremony attended by two of the figures most responsible for easing him into power.
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Hamid Karzai was sworn in as Afghanistan's first democratically elected president, promising to restore security to the war-shattered country exactly three years after the fall of the Taliban.
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Congolese President Joseph Kabila meets run-off rival, Jean-Pierre Bemba, for the first time since clashes in the capital.
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Botswana&#39;s President-elect Festus Mogae was sworn in for a second and final term in office on Tuesday after his party won a huge victory in weekend parliamentary elections in the diamond-rich southern African country.
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KINSHASA, Congo, Dec. 6 -- After decades of dictatorship and wars, Congo on Wednesday swore in its first freely elected president since 1960, installing Joseph Kabila, the son of a rebel leader, who promised a new era of order and better days ahead.
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JAKARTA, Indonesia  - Retired general Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono was sworn in as Indonesia's sixth president Wednesday after winning the country's first-ever direct election for head of state last month.
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Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa is to be sworn in for a second term of office, after his disputed election victory.
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A ring of steel was placed around the Afghan capital on Tuesday as Hamid Karzai prepared to be sworn in as the country&#39;s first popularly elected President at a ceremony
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Democratic Republic of Congo's first   freely elected parliament in more than 40 years convened on   Friday, with President Joseph Kabila's coalition poised to   appoint a prime minister.
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KISANGANI, DR Congo  - The Democratic Republic of Congo, which is emerging from five years of bloody warfare, &quot;will allow no further aggression,&quot; warned President Joseph Kabila on his first visit to the restive east of this vast central African
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Opposition leader Ernest Bai Koroma was sworn in as Sierra Leone's president on Monday after winning a run-off vote marked by political tension and some cases of ballot fraud in the war-scarred West African state.
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DR Congo's Supreme Court confirms Joseph Kabila as the winner of the country's presidential elections.
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KISANGANI, DRCongo : President Joseph Kabila of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) began a historic visit to the unstable and war-weary east of his country with a warning that the nation would not accept any further &quot;aggression&quot;.
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The Democratic Republic of Congo&#39;s President Joseph Kabila visited the former rebel-held east on Saturday for the first time since taking power, a trip intended to show the country was reuniting after years of war.
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KABUL : Hamid Karzai was to be sworn in as Afghanistan&#39;s first democratically elected president under watertight security after remnants of the ousted Taliban regime threatened to disrupt the ceremony.