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Newspaper Location First issued Publisher Languages Website Notes The Tanzania Times Tanzania (Dar es Salaam) July 1995 Eastern Africa News Network English www.tanzaniatimes.net Daily/Online Alasiri [3] Nipashe [3] Mikocheni, Dar Es Salaam Dec 1994 The Guardian Limited : Kiswahili Homepage: Daily The Guardian [3] Dar es Salaam [1995]
History of Tanzania. People have lived in Zanzibar for 20,000 years. [citation needed] The earliest written accounts of Zanzibar began when the islands became a base for traders voyaging between the African Great Lakes, the Somali Peninsula, the Arabian Peninsula, Iran, and the Indian subcontinent. Unguja offered a protected and defensible ...
John Okello. Born. 26 October 1937. (1937-10-26) Otuke District, Uganda Protectorate. Died. 1971 (aged 33–34) John Gideon Okello (26 October 1937 – c. 1971) was a Ugandan revolutionary and the leader of the Zanzibar Revolution in 1964. This revolution overthrew Sultan Jamshid bin Abdullah and led to the proclamation of Zanzibar as a republic.
Zanzibar [a] is an insular semi-autonomous region which united with Tanganyika in 1964 to form the United Republic of Tanzania.It is an archipelago in the Indian Ocean, 25–50 km (16–31 mi) off the coast of the African mainland, and consists of many small islands and two large ones: Unguja (the main island, referred to informally as Zanzibar) and Pemba Island.
Hammersmith Hospital (PhD) Profession. Physician. Medical practice. Muhimbili Hospital (1993–95) HKMU (1998–2000) Hussein Ali Mwinyi (born in Unguja 23 December 1966) is the 8th president of Zanzibar. [1] The son of former Tanzanian president Ali Hasan Mwinyi, he is a member of the Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) political party.
Within Zanzibar, the revolution is a key cultural event, marked by the release of 545 prisoners on its tenth anniversary and by a military parade on its 40th. [85] Zanzibar Revolution Day has been designated as a public holiday by the government of Tanzania; it is celebrated on 12 January each year. [86]
Slave memorial, Zanzibar. Slavery existed in the Sultanate of Zanzibar until 1909. Slavery and slave trade existed in the Zanzibar Archipelago for at least a thousand years. When clove and coconut plantations became a big industry on the islands, domestic slavery expanded to a point where two thirds of the populations were slaves.
The Anglo-Zanzibar War was a military conflict fought between the United Kingdom and the Sultanate of Zanzibar on 27 August 1896. The conflict lasted between 38 and 45 minutes, marking it as the shortest recorded war in history. [3] The immediate cause of the war was the suspicious death of the pro-British Sultan Hamad bin Thuwaini on 25 August ...