LIBERIA-POLITICS-WEAH-INAUGURATION

(From L) Togo's President Faure Gnassingbe, Congo's President Denis Sassou Nguesso, Ghana's former Presidents John Dramani Mahama and Jerry Rawlings (Rear), vice-president of Gambia Fatoumata Tambajang (Front C), Sierra Leone's President Ernest Bai Koroma, Ghana's President Nana Akufo-Addo (Rear R) and Guinea's President Alpha Conde (Front R standing) attend the swearing-in ceremony of Liberia's president-elect on January 22, 2018 in Monrovia's stadium. To the cheers of a crowd fired by his promise to bring them jobs and prosperity, former football star George Weah was sworn in as president of Liberia on January 22, completing the country's first transition between democratically-elected leaders since 1944. / AFP PHOTO / ISSOUF SANOGO (Photo credit should read ISSOUF SANOGO/AFP via Getty Images)