WINDHOEK, March 21 (RHC) – Hage Geingob was inaugurated as the new president of Namibia on Saturday.

The inauguration ceremony kicked off at 9:30 a.m. local time at the Independence Stadium. Namibian officials and foreign dignitaries, together with thousands of citizens, watched the ceremony.

Among the dignitaries attending were Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, Edgar Lungu of Zambia, Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan of Nigeria and Jakaya Kikwete of Tanzania.

Geingob, 74, the winner of last November's presidential election, is the third president of Namibia since the Southwest African country's independence in 1990.

A two-time Prime Minister of Namibia, Geingob first served as Prime Minister in 1990 until 2002. He has been the ruling Swapo party's vice president since November 2007, a position that saw him being nominated as the party's sole presidential candidate at the party's highly contested December 2012 elective congress.