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KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo, Dec. 6 (UPI) -- Joseph Kabila was sworn in Wednesday as the Democratic Republic of Congo's first freely elected president in 48 years.
Kabila, 35, has been the country's de facto head of state since January 2001 after the assassination of his father, Laurent Kabila, but elections last month led to the formalization, the BBC reported.
The U.S. Carter Center election observer group said there was evidence of vote tampering on both Kabila's and challenger Jean-Pierre Bemba's sides but that neither candidate benefited significantly over the other. The country's Supreme Court upheld the results, which saw Kabila take 58 percent of the vote to Bemba's 41 percent.
Between 1998 and 2002, an estimated 4 million people in the resource-rich country died in fighting between government forces and rebels backed by Uganda and Rwanda.
Several African heads of state, including Thabo Mbeki of South Africa and Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria, attended Kabila's swearing-in ceremony, the report said.
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