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The People's Republic of Zanzibar (Swahili: Jamhuri ya watu wa Zanzibar) was a short-lived African state founded in 1964, consisting of the islands of the Zanzibar Archipelago. It existed for less than six months before it merged with Tanganyika to create the "United Republic of Tanganyika and Zanzibar", which would be renamed the United ...
The total population of Zanzibar was 1,889,773 people – with an annual growth rate of 3.8 percent. [48] The population of Zanzibar City, which was the largest city, was 219,007. [49] In 2002, around two-thirds of the people, 622,459, lived on Unguja (Zanzibar Island), with most settled
Sheikh Abeid Amani Karume was named president of the newly created People's Republic of Zanzibar. Several thousand ethnic Arab (5,000-12,000 Zanzibaris of Arabic descent) and Indian civilians were murdered and thousands more detained or expelled, their property either confiscated or destroyed.
The Sultan fled into exile, and the Sultanate was replaced by the People's Republic of Zanzibar and Pemba, a socialist government led by the Afro-Shirazi Party (ASP). Over 20,000 people were killed and refugees, especially Arabs and Indians, escaped the island as a consequence of the revolution. [9]
This is a list of the heads of government of Zanzibar, an semi-autonomous region of Tanzania. The office of Chief Minister (later changed to Prime Minister) was established in 1961 and abolished in 2010, having been previously abolished between 1964 and 1983.
The country was renamed the People's Republic of Zanzibar and Pemba; [1] the new government's first acts were to permanently banish the Sultan and to ban the ZNP and ZPPP. [3] Seeking to distance himself from the volatile Okello, Karume quietly sidelined him from the political scene, although allowing him to retain his self-bestowed title of ...
The president of Zanzibar (Swahili: Rais wa Zanzibar) is the head of the Revolutionary Government of Zanzibar, which is a semi-autonomous government within Tanzania. The current president is Hussein Mwinyi .
Upon the Protectorate being abolished, Zanzibar became a constitutional monarchy within the Commonwealth under the Sultan. [29] Sultan Jamshid bin Abdullah was overthrown a month later during the Zanzibar Revolution. [30] Jamshid fled into exile, and the Sultanate was replaced by the People's Republic of Zanzibar.