Egypt’s former army chief Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi has been sworn in as president for a four-year term.
The inauguration comes less than a year after the army ousted Mohammed Morsi, the Islamist who was the country’s first freely elected leader.
El-Sissi, 59, took his oath at the headquarters of the Supreme Constitutional Court in a suburb south of Cairo.
Sunday has been declared a national holiday but tight security is in place across the Egyptian capital.
The last year has seen repeated violent clashes between the army regime and supporters of Mr Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood.
