MO­GADISHU, So­ma­lia — So­ma­li­a’s new Pres­i­dent Mo­hamed Ab­dul­lahi Mo­hamed has been in­au­gu­rated while promis­ing to re­store dig­nity to the trou­bled Horn of Africa na­tion.

Mo­hamed was elected ear­lier this month in a step to­ward So­ma­li­a’s first fully func­tion­ing cen­tral gov­ern­ment in a quar­ter-cen­tury.

The new leader, who also holds U.S. cit­i­zen­ship, has al­ready vowed to make se­cu­rity a pri­or­ity in a coun­try where ex­trem­ist group al-Shabab still car­ries out deadly at­tacks in the cap­i­tal, Mo­gadishu, and else­where.

The Is­lamic ex­trem­ist group ear­lier this week de­nounced the elec­tion and vowed to keep fight­ing.

Sev­eral re­gional heads of state at­tended Mo­hamed’s in­au­gu­ra­tion Wednes­day.

Mo­hamed, also known as Far­majo, also is promis­ing to tackle graft in a coun­try re­cently ranked by Trans­parency In­ter­na­tional as the most cor­rupt in the world.