Kenya: Uhuru Kenyatta inaugurated President

New Kenyan President, Uhuru Kenyatta

Uhuru Kenyatta has been sworn in as Kenya’s president. He replaces Mwai Kibaki, a very successful president, whose second term has expired.

Kenyatta, 51, becomes Kenya’s youngest-ever president following a narrow election victory, with 50.07 percent of the vote, in elections held last month.

The country’s chief justice administered the oath of office to Kenyatta in a sports stadium packed with tens of thousands of Kenyans and numerous African leaders on Tuesday.

Uhuru Kenyatta is the son of Kenya’s founding president Jomo Kenyatta.

Kenya is east Africa’s largest economy, and has one of the fastest growing countries on the African continent.