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Published: October 14th 2005
"At least 18 supporters of the main opposition party in Tanzania's semi autonomous island of Zanzibar were wounded on Sunday after police opened fire on a crowd.
"I heard the gunshots" said Salma Mohamed, a Zanzibar based reporter covering the political campaign there ahead of 30th October elections" IRIN
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I stayed on zanzibar during ramadan a few years ago for 3 weeks.I think they should shut down tourism on the island for that month. if you pay all that money to get there and you have to eat behind screens that obscure the view during the day its not great. We headed to the north of the island for the weeks that ran up to christmas, all but the bare essentials of the restaurants/bars were closed during the day, but oh how quickly they opened up as christmas high season kicked in.(still during ramadan). Italian women from an expensive resort on the east of the island were walking through stone town in g-strings during ramadan oblivious to the dirty looks they recieved. Eco torism would be lovely, there is an island close to zanzibar with an eco lodge, but your budget will be terminally damaged.