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Salmin Amour

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Salmin Amour
سلمين عمور
Dr.
5th President of Zanzibar
In office
25 October 1990 – 8 November 2000
Preceded byIdris Abdul Wakil
Succeeded byAmani Abeid Karume
Personal details
Born1942 (age 81–82)
Mkwajuni, Zanzibar
NationalityTanzanian
Political partyCCM
SpouseBi Azza
Children12
ResidenceZanzibar
Alma materPhD Leipzig University formerly Carl Marx party College Berlin - German 1986.

Salmin Amour (born 1942) is a Tanzanian politician who was President of Zanzibar from 25 October 1990 to 8 November 2000. He was elected in 1990 as the sole candidate and received 98 percent of the votes.[1] In Tanzania's first multi-party elections in 1995, Amour was accused of rigging the Zanzibari presidential election by opposition leader Seif Shariff Hamad.[2]

References

  1. ^ Kalley, Jacqueline Audrey; Schoeman, Elna; Andor, Lydia Eve (1999). Southern African political history: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 631. ISBN 0-313-30247-2.
  2. ^ Saleh, Ally (24 October 2000), "Zanzibar braces for trouble", BBC News, BBC, retrieved 15 June 2010 {{citation}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |newspaper= (help)