Tanzania

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Shortly after achieving independence from Britain in the early 1960s, Tanganyika and Zanzibar merged to form the nation of Tanzania in 1964. One-party rule came to an end in 1995 with the first democratic elections held in the country since the 1970s. Zanzibar's semi-autonomous status and popular opposition have led to two contentious elections since 1995, which the ruling party won despite international observers' claims of voting irregularities.

 

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Christians Live in Cloud of Fear in Zanzibar, Tanzania

Monday, September 5, 2011 - 17:39
Young man flees family death threats on Muslim isle; another chooses jail over violent mob. NAIROBI, Kenya, September 5 (CDN) — On Tanzania’s semi-autonomous island of Zanzibar, Christians live in a climate of fear. It’s a place where a young man flees the island to escape death threats from his Muslim family, and a Christian who accidentally burned pages of the Quran opts for jail by entering a guilty plea rather than face certain death...
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Muslim Extremists Torch Churches in Zanzibar

Monday, August 1, 2011 - 23:09
Worship buildings burned on east African archipelago’s Zanzibar, Pemba islands. NAIROBI, Kenya, August 1 (CDN) — Muslim extremists on Saturday (July 30) burned down a church building on Zanzibar island off the coast of Tanzania, church leaders said, just three days after another congregation’s facility on the island was reduced to ashes. In Fuoni on the south coast of Zanzibar (known locally as Unguja), Islamic extremists torched the...
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Muslims Seize Christian Burial Sites in Tanzania’s Archipelago

Friday, July 29, 2011 - 01:26
Authorities of predominantly Islamic Zanzibar island chain decline to act. ZANZIBAR, Tanzania, July 28 (CDN) — Influential Muslims on this East African island have begun building what appears to be a hotel on a 100-year-old burial site owned by an Anglican church, Christian leaders said. Church leaders with ownership papers for the land told Compass they are disturbed that authorities have taken no action since they filed a police...
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