President of Zanzibar Amani Abeid Karume of Tanzania
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Allegedly born at the village of Mwera in 1905, Karume had little formal education and worked as a seaman before entering politics.
Karume was willing to work within the electoral framework of the new government, and actually informed a British police officer of the revolutionary plot set to take place in January.
Karume was in Zanzibar on January 12, 1964 - the night of the revolution - but taken to Dar-es-Salaam for safety the next day.
Karume was assassinated in April 1972 in Zanzibar Town.
Born in 1948, Karume was schooled at the Lumumba Secondary School until 1969 when he became an accountant.
Karume is married and is the father of six adult children.
Karume said his country and China shared similar sufferings inthe past and Tanzania appreciated China's generous help to Tanzania, saying that his country is willing to work with China toboost bilateral ties.
Sheikh Abeid Karume was apparently the son of a slave woman from.
Sheikh Abeid Karume was apparently the son of a slave woman from Ruanda-Urundi who moved to Zanzibar when the boy was young.
Karume was leader of the Revolutionary Council and subsequently became president of the new Zanzibar People's Republic.
On April 7, 1972, Karume was assassinated by four gunmen in Dar es Salaam.
Tuberculosis | Zanzibar Will Increase Funding for TB Control Efforts, President Karume Says - GlobalHealthReporting.
The government of the Tanzanian island Zanzibar will increase budget allocations to the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare for efforts to combat tuberculosis, President Amani Abeid Karume said recently, the Citizen reports.
In addition, 30% of the island's TB cases were among HIV-positive people, Karume said (Kimelemeta, Citizen, 10/28.
observers believed was a revenge killing.
President of Zanzibar Amani Abeid Karume receives the INTERPOL medal from President Jackie Selebi.
Officially closing the conference, President of Zanzibar Amani Abeid Karume praised the delegates for the work they had achieved.
Zanzibar President Amani Abeid Karume has strongly urged all parties to nurture the culture of dialogue in solving political.
Zanzibar President Amani Abeid Karume has challenged tour operators to introduce a well coordinated system that will allow tourists to reach other destinations during their stay in Tanzania.
Zanzibar President Amani Abeid Karume has asked electoral commissions in southern Africa to be prudent in supervising free and fair elections to ward off any loss of lives and acts of disorders in the area.
Zanzibar President Amani Abeid Karume has challenged the Tanzania Food and Drug Authority (TFDA) to step up efforts to curb the influx of sub-standard drugs, cosmetics and food from abroad.
Zanzibar President Amani Abeid Karume has said he is optmistic that the isles would get electricity soon after completion of maintenance work at the Fumba power plant.
Zanzibar President Amani Abeid Karume has invited business people from United States of America to put up investments in the spicy isles of Unguja and Pemba.
Havana, Nov 16 (Prensa Latina) Relations between Cuba and Zanzibar are fertile Thursday, with that territory s President Amani Abeid Karume s visit to the island.
Karume praised the Cuban collaboration with his nation in health field, terming excellent relations existing between both States, which date from 1982.
Amani Abeid Karume is of the new generation of African leaders, succeeding leaders who led the liberation of Africa from colonialism.
Amani Karume was schooled in the freedom struggle through his association with his father.
Since assuming the Presidency, Karume has engaged himself greatly in economic and social development of Zanzibar particularly in education and health sectors and poverty reduction programs.
Karume is an idealist leader who leads a simple life.
Karume is populist politician, a quality he inherited from his father, but he is also a realist.
Zanzibar President Amani Abeid Karume has strongly urged all parties to nurture the culture of dialogue in solving political differences in the Isles.
failed to ensure security for Zanzibaris despite the promise he gave them.
to create national unity through a mutually acceptable structure of the Union.
would put to an end the problem of delayed salaries for civil servants.
full fledged Minister in the same Ministry.
and to cover the cost of the prescription.
Amani Abeid Karume was sworn in as Zanzibars president while opposition members and supporters continued to be detained by police in a Stone Town neighborhood.
Karume said that voters chose his party because they are impressed with its polices and that democracy is alive and well in the semi-autonomous islands.
of whom was in Dr Salmin Amour’s government.
Despite elections campaign, let US follow the teachings of the Quran and remain united, Karume said in a televised speech.
bodies in some humiliating manner.