Aboud Jumbe Mwinyi (14 June 1920 – 14 August 2016) was a Zanzibari politician. He held several positions, including the second

president of Zanzibar The President of Zanzibar ( sw, Rais wa Zanzibar) is the head of the Revolutionary Government of Zanzibar, which is a semi-autonomous government within Tanzania. The current president is Hussein Mwinyi. The president is also the chairman of th ...

, chairman of the

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, Vice-President of the Union, and the vice-chairman of the Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) party. Jumbe served as president of Zanzibar from 11 April 1972 until 30 January 1984. He succeeded Abeid Karume as president, following Karume's assassination on 7 April 1972. He was initially elected by the

as a part of the Afro-Shirazi Party (ASP). While he was in office, in 1977, the two ruling parties of

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merged. In particular, the ASP and the

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(TANU), merged to create

's ruling party, the CCM. In 1979, Jumbe introduced the first post-

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of Zanzibar. This separated the powers of the

and the

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. Furthermore, the new constitution established elections by

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, instead of being elected by the Revolutionary Council. Jumbe died at the age of 96 at his home at Kigamboni, Dar es Salaam, on 14 August 2016.

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