President Museveni has landed in Zanzibar at the invitation of Dr. Samia Suluhu Hassan, the Tanzanian President, to attend the 60th anniversary celebrations of the Zanzibar revolution.
Museveni was received at Abeid Amani Karume International Airport in Zanzibar by Dr. Khalid Salum Mohammed, the Tanzanian Minister of Construction and Communications.
Also present at the airport to welcome President Museveni were Uganda’s High Commissioner to Tanzania, Rtd. Col. Fred Mwesigye, and his deputy, Maj Gen Geoffrey Muheesi, along with the Defense Attaché at the Uganda High Commission in Tanzania, Brigadier Ronald Bigirwa.
Several dignitaries, including East African leaders, have been invited to grace the colorful ceremony that will take place at Amani Stadium in Zanzibar.
Zanzibar revolution
The Zanzibar revolution occurred in 12 January 1964 and led to the overthrow of the Sultan of Zanzibar and his mainly Arab government by the island’s majority Black African population.
Zanzibar was an ethnically diverse state consisting of a number of islands off the east coast of Tanganyika.
