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The Democratic Republic of Congo's President, Joseph Kabila, has been sworn in for a second term in Kinshasa. He reportedly promised to safeguard national unity, as tanks were deployed in the capital to prevent protests.
Mr Kabila's inauguration went ahead after the country's Supreme Court upheld his victory in November's disputed presidential election. Opposition leader Etienne Tshisekedi maintains he won the poll and says he will swear himself in on Friday.
The elections were the first to be organised locally since the end of a devastating civil war in 2003, which left some four million people dead. The BBC's Thomas Hubert in Kinshasa says Mr Kabila, 40, took the oath of office in the presidential compound, in the presence of a few thousand supporters.
Schneemann.