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JUBILANT supporters of an opposition leader have taken to the streets in Sierra Leone to celebrate his victory in presidential elections.
Ernest Bai Koroma was sworn in as Sierra Leone's president, shortly after being declared the winner of a tense run-off election.
Koroma, the opposition leader, won 54.6% of the final vote against Vice-President Solomon Berewa's 45.4%. The national election commission said that flaws in the vote were not enough to invalidate the result.
Koroma was inaugurated at an afternoon ceremony in Freetown, attended by military officials and dignitaries including outgoing President Ahmed Tejan Kabbah and
Berewa.
The 54-year-old insurance broker says he wants to run the country like a business concern. "My government will spare no effort to deal with zero tolerance with corruption and mismanagement of state resources." Koroma told the crowd.
"We know how high your expectations are and that you have suffered for too long."
Kabbah, who was prevented by law from running for a third five-year term, said: "I inherited a bankrupt, war-torn and failing state." "Today, I am handing over to you a fully stable and functional state.
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