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1866 1886 |
Dr. John Kirk, a Scottish botanist, served as the British representative on the island of Zanzibar. He made great effort to abolish the local slave trade. In 2011 Alastair Hazell authored “The Last Slave Market: Dr John Kirk and the Struggle to End the African slave Trade. Links: Britain, Tanzania, Scotland, Black History, Slavery, Zanzibar 
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1872 Apr 15 |
A cyclone hit the coast of Tanzania. All the ships in the harbor of Zanzibar, with the exception of a steamer that escaped to sea, were sunk or wrecked on the shore with great loss of life. Links: Tanzania, Disaster, Hurricane, Zanzibar
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1890 |
Britain ceded the island of Heligoland to Germany in exchange for a free hand in the former slave-trading sultanate of Zanzibar. Links: Britain, Germany, Zanzibar, Heligoland
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1963 Dec 10 |
Zanzibar was granted independence by the United Kingdom and became a constitutional monarchy under the Sultan. Links: Britain, Zanzibar
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1964 Oct 29 |
Julius Kambarage Nyerere (1922-1999) took office as the first president of Tanzania, a union of Tanganyika and Zanzibar. Links: Tanzania, Zanzibar
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1977 Feb 5 |
Julius Nyerere and Aboud Jumbe set up the Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) party following the merger of the Tanganyika African National Union (TANU) and the Afro-Shirazi Party (ASP), which were the sole operating parties in mainland Tanzania and the semi-autonomous islands of Zanzibar respectively. Links: Tanzania, Zanzibar
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1991 Nov 24 |
Freddie Mercury (45), Zanzibar-born rock singer, died in London of pneumonia brought on by AIDS. Mercury and the rock group Queen made the 1975 hit "Bohemian Rhapsody." Links: Britain, AIDS, Pop&Rock, Zanzibar
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1995 |
Tanzania's Opposition Civic United Front (CUF) supporters believed that the ruling Party of the Revolution (CCM) stole the 1995 elections in Zanzibar. Links: Tanzania, Zanzibar
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2010 Oct 31 |
Tanzania's ruling party, which has been in power for close to half a century, faced an energized opposition in national elections, following corruption scandals that have undermined the government's popularity. On Nov 5 election officials said Tanzania's Pres. Jakaya Kikwete won a 2nd term in office with 61% of the vote. In Zanzibar Ali Mohammed Shein (62) won the election with 50.1% of the vote. He was sworn in as president on Nov 3. Links: Tanzania, Zanzibar
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2012 May 26 |
In Tanzania's archipelago of Zanzibar an Islamic group called Uamsho clashed with police after they marched on a police station following the arrest of one of their leaders. The group had been holding demonstrations demanding an end to the union with Tanzania. Links: Tanzania, Zanzibar
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2013 Aug 7 |
In Tanzania's semi-autonomous Zanzibar region men riding a motorbike threw acid at two British teenage girls (18) in leaving them with facial, chest and back injuries. The girls had been volunteering at a local school in Zanzibar. Links: Britain, Tanzania, Zanzibar
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2015 Oct 25 |
Tanzania and Zanzibar held general elections. Ruling party candidate, Works Minister John Magufuli (55), battled former PM Edward Lowassa (62), who defected to the opposition earlier this year after being rejected as the ruling party's candidate. On Oct 29 the National Electoral Commission said John Magufuli won the presidential elections with over 58 percent of votes, but the opposition said the vote was rigged and also claimed victory. Links: Tanzania, Zanzibar
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2015 Oct 26 |
In Zanzibar Maalim Seif Hamad of the Civic United Front party announced he had won the Zanzibar presidential election, saying he had ousted his rival, Ali Mohamed Shein of Tanzania's ruling party. Although part of Tanzania, Zanzibar is run by a semi-autonomous government with its own president. Links: Tanzania, Zanzibar
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2015 Oct 28 |
Tanzania's opposition presidential candidate Edward Lowassa called for a recount of the Oct 25 election for the presidency, citing voting irregularities in the East African nation's tightest elections in more than five decades. Earlier, the vote in Tanzania's semi-autonomous Zanzibar archipelago was annulled after the election commission there cited gross violations. Links: Tanzania, Zanzibar
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2015 Oct 31 |
In Zanzibar two small blasts rocked streets but caused no casualties, in the latest unrest following the annulment of polls on the semi-autonomous Tanzanian archipelago. Links: Zanzibar
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2016 Mar 20 |
Elections were held in Zanzibar with security tight and an opposition boycott in place for the re-run of October's polls in Tanzania's semi-autonomous islands, cancelled due to fraud allegations. President Ali Mohamed Shein of the Chama Cha Mapinduzi party was re-elected with more than 91 percent of the votes. America suspended $472 million in aid over the election re-run. Links: Tanzania, Zanzibar
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2016 Apr 27 |
A Zanzibar health official said a cholera outbreak on the island archipelago has killed at least 45 people since March and that 3,000 people have been hospitalized with the disease. Links: Microbiology, Zanzibar
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2016 Jul 10 |
In Tanzania visiting Indian PM Narendra Modi and President John Pombe Magufuli signed five agreements, including one to provide credit $92 million to improve water accessibility on the island of Zanzibar. Links: India, Tanzania, Zanzibar
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2017 Sep 16 |
Police in Tanzania’s autonomous region of Zanzibar said 20 people have been detained for engaging in gay and lesbian activities. 12 men and 8 women were arrested following a police raid on a hotel where the suspects were attending a workshop. Links: Tanzania, Gays, Zanzibar
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2020 Oct 26 |
Tanzania's police arrested 42 people in connection with violence on Pemba island, part of Tanzania's Zanzibar Archipelago. Police reportedly shot dead at least nine citizens amid unrest over alleged fraud ahead of the country’s presidential election. Links: Tanzania, Zanzibar
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2020 Oct 27 |
Zanzibar's main opposition leader Maalim Seif Sharif was arrested a day before local and national elections. Links: Tanzania, Zanzibar
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2020 Dec 6 |
The main opposition party in Tanzania's semiautonomous Zanzibar archipelago announced it will join a coalition government with the islands' ruling party, after a disputed poll in October in which some of its supporters were allegedly killed and its leaders arrested. Links: Tanzania, Zanzibar
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2021 Feb 17 |
Seif Sharif Hamad (77), the vice-president of Tanzania's semi-autonomous islands of Zanzibar, died, nearly three weeks after his party said he had contracted Covid-19. Links: Zanzibar, COVID-19
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2021 Apr 24 |
Zanzibar's authorities halted all sea activities, including fishing and transport, until further notice as a tropical storm approaches the Tanzanian islands. Links: Tanzania, Zanzibar
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2022 Oct 14 |
It was reported that Zanzibar's government is investigating why thousands of dead swimming crabs have washed up on the beaches of the Tanzanian islands. Since 28 September, there have been reports of the dead crabs washing ashore at Mtoni, Mizingani and Forodhani public beaches. Links: Environment, Tanzania, Zanzibar
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