{"id":115813,"date":"2021-03-02T22:16:32","date_gmt":"2021-03-02T14:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=115813"},"modified":"2021-03-02T22:16:34","modified_gmt":"2021-03-02T14:16:34","slug":"zanzibar-gets-new-first-vice-president-after-hamads-demise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=115813","title":{"rendered":"Zanzibar gets new first Vice President after Hamad&#8217;s demise"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/africa\/Zanzibar-gets-new-first-Vice-President-after-Hamad-s-demise-1193557?gallery=1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/218\/21805386.295.jpg\" alt=\"Othman Masoud Othman has been appointed as the First Vice President of Zanzibar,  NMG\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"> <strong><em>Othman Masoud Othman <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ZANZIBAR, March 2 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; President Hussein Ali Mwinyi has appointed Othman Masoud Othman as the new First Vice President of the semi-autonomous Tanzanian archipelago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Othman replaces Seif Sharif Hamad who died on Feb 17. Veteran politician Hamad was the Zanzibar chairman and presidential contender of the island&#8217;s main opposition the Alliance for Change and Transparency (ACT-Wazalendo).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The party accepted the ruling Chama cha Mapinduzi invitation to join the government in December last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Zanzibar Constitution, a party that gets at least 10 per cent of the presidential votes will take the position of the First Vice President and form the government with the winning party. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Othman Masoud Othman ZANZIBAR, March 2 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; President Hussein Ali Mwinyi has appointed Othman Masoud Othman as the new First Vice President of the semi-autonomous Tanzanian archipelago. Othman replaces Seif Sharif Hamad who died on Feb 17. Veteran politician Hamad was the Zanzibar chairman and presidential contender of the island&#8217;s main opposition the Alliance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":115814,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115813"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=115813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/115814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}