'No corruption' says new Liberian president

Africa’s first elected female head of state, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, has been sworn in as president of war-battered Liberia, promising a clean break with the west African nation’s violent past and pledging to rebuild.

With US Navy warships offshore for the first time since the war’s end two years ago, and US first lady Laura Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on hand in a rare show of support, the moment was greeted with thunderous applause from thousands of guests.