Ali Mohamed Shein

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Ali Mohamed Shein

Ali Mohamed Shein (born March 13, 1948 in Chokocho ( Pemba , Zanzibar )) is a doctor , politician and Vice President of Tanzania . He is also president of the semi-autonomous island of Zanzibar.

Life

Studies and professional career

After school education and basic studies at Lumumba - College in Zanzibar and a short stint as assistant to the Deputy First Secretary of the Ministry of Education, he began in 1969 a preparatory study of medicine at the State University of Voronezh , before 1970-1975, a post-graduate studies at the State University of Odessa in graduated from the USSR .

After returning to Tanzania in 1976, he became head of the Diagnostic and Pathology Departments of the Ministry of Health. He then completed a degree in medical biochemistry at the Medical Faculty of Newcastle University in 1984 , which he completed in 1988 with a Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Medical Biochemistry. At the same time, he received his doctorate with a dissertation on congenital defects in metabolism to become a Philosophiae Doktor ( Ph. D. ) in the field of clinical biochemistry.

After returning to Tanzania in 1989, he again took over the management of the Department of Pathology at the Ministry of Health as a diagnostic specialist. In November 1991 he became program manager of the AIDS prevention project of the Ministry of Health and at the same time until July 1995 advisor to the Ministry of Laboratory Services and Diagnostics. During this time he was also a member of the WHO Expert Committee on Africa , the Academic Council of the Muhimbili University College of Health Sciences , the Advisory Committee of the State Commission on Science and Technology, and Secretary of the Research Council of the Ministry of Health.

Political career

In 1966 he became a member of the Youth League of the Afro-Shirazi Party (ASP-YL) and began his political career as its secretary for public relations at Lumumba College from January to December 1969. Before that he was secretary of the ASP-YL at the Zanzibar Secondary School for a short time in 1968.

In 1969 he became a member of the Afro-Shirazi Party. After it merged with the Tanganyika African National Union (TANU) to form the Party of the Revolution ( Chama Cha Mapinduzi ), he became a member on June 13, 1977. On September 2, 1977, he became a member of the Executive Committee of the CCM of Pemba South .

On October 29, 1995, he was appointed a member of the House of Representatives by the then President of Zanzibar. A few days later, on November 12, 1995, he was appointed Deputy Minister of Health. In this function he was head of the Tanzanian delegations to the World Health Assemblies in Geneva in 1997 and 1999, as well as the family planning project in Indonesia in 1997.

Shein was also elected to the National Executive Committee of the CCM on September 27, 1997 and a member of the House of Representatives on November 6, 2000, where he represents the constituency of Mkanyageni . On November 22nd, 2000, he was appointed Minister of State in the Presidential Office with special responsibility for constitutional and good governance issues.

After the death of the previous Vice President of Tanzania, Omar Ali Juma , on July 4, 2001, he was appointed as his successor as Vice President on July 13, 2001 by President Benjamin William Mkapa . In May 2005 he declined to run for president in favor of Foreign Minister Jakaya Kikwete . In December 2005 he was re-elected as Vice-President alongside the current President Kikwete. As vice president, he has remained committed to health issues and was a visiting speaker at the conference of the WHO for non Noticed tropical diseases (Neglected Tropical Diseases) on 19 April, 2007.

After the victory of his CCM party in the internationally monitored and free elections in Zanzibar in November 2010, he took over the office of President of Zanzibar from his predecessor Amani Abeid Karume .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chronicle July 2001 rulers.org
  2. ↑ Reinhold Einloft: A new generation comes to power . ( Memento from June 26, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF) May 2005
  3. ↑ Speech at the meeting of the WHO on neglected tropical diseases on April 19, 2007
  4. ↑ Everything as usual in Tanzania? Deutsche Welle , November 2, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Shein, Ali Mohamed
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Tanzanian Vice President and President of Zanzibar
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Chokocho ( Pemba , Zanzibar )