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Guinea-Bissau Speaker sworn in as interim president


    BISSAU (Reuters) - Guinea-Bissau's National Assembly speaker Raimundo Pereira was sworn in as interim head of state on Tuesday, a day after President Joao Bernardo Vieira was shot dead.

    The armed forces have pledged to respect the country's constitution after Vieira and a rival, armed forces chief General Batista Tagme Na Wai, were both killed, throwing the tiny and unstable West African state into confusion.

    Under the constitution Pereira takes over the presidency for a limited period pending presidential elections.

    (Reporting by Alberto Dabo; editing by Alistair Thomson)