Zanzibar
- Terrorism: Tanzania Deports Italian Doctor for "False Alarm" By ALI SULTAN SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT - Monday, October 6, 2003 The Tanzania Immigration Department has deported an Italian doctor who, early this year, allegedly raised a false alarm about terrorists in Zanzibar. According to a letter dated July 7 and signed by Tanzania´s Director of Immigration, K.W.D Khomano, Dr Mario Mariana, who was also honorary Italian Consul in Zanzibar, was asked to leave within 90 days. Dr Mariana, who appealed through different channels to the government to rescind its decision to no avail, left the country recently under supervision of the Immigration officials at the airport. He came to Zanzibar 15 years ago as an employee of Unicef, but became an investor after his contract with Unicef expired. He set up his own hospital, the Zanzibar Medical Diagnostic Centre, which initially treated foreigners and investors before it extended its services to locals. He was later appointed by the Italian government as its honorary consul in Zanzibar earning an honorarium of $ 1,000 per annum. Though the letter from the director of immigration did not provide details, sources from the department told The EastAfrican: "Dr Mariana was on the watchlist due to his activities and contacts." Early this year, Dr Mariana was reportedly to have tipped off foreign embassies in Dar es Salaam of the presence of terrorists in Zanzibar after he had just treated "Arab or Muslim" visitors at Serena Hotel in Zanzibar. Government officials were said to have been angered by his action, which disrupted the inflow of tourists. The tourism industry, being the Isles´ economic mainstay, was hard hit. Tourists stopped coming while international airlines halted services to the Isles. Western embassies led by the US and UK posted repeated warnings to their citizens not to travel to Zanzibar. The Italian government and Scandinavian countries followed suit. The warning, posted in the internet worldwide from January 15, was taken seriously by tourists, who cancelled bookings on the Isles.
- In November 2002 some Muslims beat up and threatened women clad in tight and short dresses.
- Cholera outbreak on the rise again. DAR ES SALAAM, Dec 12, 2001 (AFP) A cholera outbreak in Zanzibar which was thought to be subsiding is on the rise again in the island off of Tanzania, the Zanzibar health ministry said Wednesday. Three people have died since Monday, bringing the death toll in six weeks to 12, the ministry said in a statement. It said efforts to control the disease had been stepped up, as 41 patients have been admitted at various health centres for further treatment. Other cholera cases have been reported in Tumbatu, an islet in Zanzibar´s northern region, as well as in the Chumbuni and Mtopepo suburbs of Zanzibar municipality. The semi-autonomous island´s director for preventive health, Juma Rajab, announced on state-owned Voice of Zanzibar that the government has banned sale of juices and food in open-air stalls in the municipality of Zanzibar. Rajab said the ban would remain in force beyond the Eid el-Fitr holidays ending the Moslem fasting month of Ramadan, expected to be held from December 16 to 18, depending on the sighting of the new moon.
Cholera declines DAR ES SALAAM, Dec 28, 2001 (AFP) A cholera epidemic which broke out November 2001 in Tanzania´s offshore island of Zanzibar and Pemba has eased, and until Thursday, there were only 14 patients admitted at health centres, officials said on Friday. "The number of new cases has steadily declined... we now receive between two and four cases daily," an official with the department of preventive services in the Zanzibar ministry of health said. He said 24 people have died of cholera since November 9, but the disease was now under control in some areas which had been hard-hit by the epidemic. "All patients at Tumbatu Gomani camp have been discharged and the temporary facility that was set up there is now closed," he said, attributing the success to efforts by health officials in their hygiene promotional campaign. Zanzibar government authorities banned vending of food, juices and fruit on stalls along the roads and open-air restaurants, as well as prohibited feasting and festivals during Eid el-Fitr and Christmas holidays. - Transfer to the east coast approx. 3000 TSH (03/2004)
- Who wants to do a favour to me does not visit the restaurant "Blues" at the Forodhani garden of the Stonetown. In former times it was a marvelous simple place where you could soft drinks and ice buy and with the locals into the discussion come. Now only tourists sitting in a "picture-book ambience" of Africa.
It´s been solved. Beginning 2004 the manager absquatulates to South Africa. Restaurant closed now. - The following page offers a description and a reservation possibility for accommodations on Sansibar: http://www.allaboutzanzibar.com. Who not travle during the season (July Septembers, December/January), should consider if he posted there, then 20 % of the price flow off to England and do not remain with the native owners.
For stays in the Stonetown recommend I naturally the link Accommodation, where also with reservations each cent in the country remains.
Aktualisiert ( Sonntag, den 19. April 2009 um 21:39 Uhr )
