Dar es salaam —
Tanzania President Mugabe, who is also the African Union chairperson,
yesterday led several continental leaders who witnessed the swearing-in
of Tanzania's fifth president, Dr John Pombe Magufuli.
The ceremony was
held at the Uhuru Stadium, which was packed by supporters of the
victorious Chama Cha Mapinduzi which ushered in independence to the East
African country in 1961.
Also to take oath
office before Chief Justice Othman Chande yesterday was Dr Magufuli's
running mate, Ms Samia Suluhu Hassan, who becomes Tanzania's first woman
vice president.
Fellow African
presidents who joined President Mugabe included Jacob Zuma (South
Africa), Paul Kagame (Rwanda), Yoweri Museveni (Uganda), Uhuru Kenyatta
(Kenya), Edgar Lungu (Zambia), Filipe Nyusi (Mozambique), Joseph Kabila
(Democratic Republic of Congo) and Prime Ministers Hailemariam Desalegn
(Ethiopia) and Sibusiso Dlamini (Swaziland).
As has become the
norm at most occasions, the stadium reverberated upon people seeing
President Mugabe's escort vehicle, whose number plates were marked
Zimbabwe on the giant monitor.
The rapturous scenes continued until the AU chief took his seat.
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