Amani Karume, president of Tanzania’s semi-autonomous island state of Zanzibar, on Sunday inaugurated the isle’s new flag nearly four decades after it entered into union with the mainland state.

Zanzibar is flying its new flag as part of the Indian Ocean islands' 41st revolutionary celebrations. It is the first time for four decades that the archipelago has had its own flag since uniting with ...

Zanzibar is to fly its own flag for the first time in 40 years since uniting with Tanganyika to form Tanzania in 1964. The adoption of the flag was approved unanimously by the archipelago's parliament ...

Tanzania’s semi-autonomous Zanzibar and Pemba islands will have their own flag before the end of the year, officials said. ”The government [of Zanzibar] is finalising the process of having the ...

"To walk in the street in Zanzibar you have to negotiate with cars. We need to have pavements, space for children to play, for the old, for disabled people." He believes maps can engineer social ...