Tanzania: Discontent Brews in Zanzibar

By: Los Angeles Times, October 30, 2005 The issue may come to a head today in local elections. Tanzania, formed in 1964 by the merger of Tanganyika and the islands of Zanzibar, was also scheduled to choose a president, but the voting was delayed until December after the death Wednesday of a senior opposition candidate. The country's ruling Revolutionary Party of Tanzania, which has won international praise for its democratic and economic policies, is considered a shoo-in on the mainland, where Muslims do not hold the majority. But most predict the opposition Civic United Front has the edge on Zanzibar and Pemba, the semiautonomous territory's two populated islands. DD 10.31.05

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