President Hussein Ali Mwinyi of Zanzibar receiving at his office on Sunday Mohammed bin Nasser al Wahaibi, Under-Secretary of the Foreign Ministry for Administrative and Financial Affairs. who conveyed greetings of Sayyid Badr bin Hamad al Busaidy, Foreign Minister, to President Mwinyi. He also handed the President of Zanzibar an invitation to visit the Sultanate of Oman.
Muscat - Sultan of Oman Haitham bin Tariq extended an official invitation to Zanzibar President Hussain Ali Mwinyi to visit Muscat, in a move that reflects an Omani desire to turn the page on the rule of the Al Busaid family of the archipelago, which is today autonomous within the state of Tanzania, and to start a new page based on the joint historical and cultural achievement between the two sides. .
This will be the first visit of the President of Zanzibari to the Sultanate. Observers of the Omani affairs believe that Sultan Haitham's invitation falls within the context of building on a state visit made by the President of Tanzania, Samia Suluhu Hassan, to Muscat last month, and it lasted for three days, during which a package of agreements and memoranda of understanding were signed to strengthen the economic partnership between the countries.
Zanzibar, a group of islands formerly called "Bar Zinj", was under the rule of the Omani Empire from 1856 to 1964, when a "revolution" led by a group of Africans, within the liberation movements witnessed by the continent of Africa, overthrew the Omani Sultan Jamshid bin Abdullah Al-Busaidi, this archipelago later united with Tanganyika to form the United Republic of Tanganyika and Zanzibar, which was replaced six months later by the name Tanzania.
Observers point out that Oman's relationship with Zanzibar was never interrupted, and that Muscat was keen to keep bridges in place with the other side, despite some scars left by the way the rule of the Al Busaid family ended for this archipelago located in the Indian Ocean.
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