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5 unusual facts about Pemba Island


Amani Abeid Karume

The controversy on the elections led to massive demonstrations, particularly in the island of Pemba where police opened fire on demonstrators, killing thirteen people.

Lorenzo Savioli

In 1979 he moved to Zanzibar, Tanzania where he worked as a clinician and later as the public health officer responsible for controlling schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminthiasis on Pemba island.

Mozambique spitting cobra

The distribution includes Natal,Mpumalanga Province Lowveld region , south-eastern Tanzania and Pemba Island and west to southern Angola and northern Namibia.

People's Bank of Zanzibar

Initially its service area was limited to the islands of Zanzibar and Pemba.

Seif Sharif Hamad

1950–1957: Hamad attended Primary School at Uondwe and Wete Boys School, in Pemba.


Kilwa Sultanate

At the zenith of its power in the 15th century, the Kilwa Sultanate owned or claimed overlordship over the mainland cities of Malindi, Inhambane and Sofala and the island-states of Mombassa, Pemba, Zanzibar, Mafia, Comoro and Mozambique (plus numerous smaller places) - essentially what is now often referred to as the "Swahili Coast".


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