{"id":14208,"date":"2025-10-31T05:20:54","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T03:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/mwinyi-re-elected-president-of-zanzibar\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:26:51","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:26:51","slug":"mwinyi-re-elected-president-of-zanzibar","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/mwinyi-re-elected-president-of-zanzibar\/","title":{"rendered":"Mwinyi re-elected President of Zanzibar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Zanzibar Electoral Commission (ZEC) has announced Dr Hussein Ali Mwinyi as the winner of the presidential election held on the islands.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mwinyi, who stood on the ticket of the ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) party, extended the party\u2019s long-standing hold on power. CCM has governed Zanzibar without interruption since independence.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Voters in the semi-autonomous archipelago, which forms part of the United Republic of Tanzania, went to the polls on Wednesday to choose their President and members of the House of Representatives.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In his victory address, Mwinyi thanked Zanzibaris for their continued trust and vowed to focus on unity, economic reform and youth employment.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;ChannelAfrica&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14209,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-14208","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"The Zanzibar Electoral Commission (ZEC) has announced Dr Hussein Ali Mwinyi as the winner of the presidential election","published_date":"2025-10-31 07:20:40","news_description":"The Zanzibar Electoral Commission (ZEC) has announced Dr Hussein Ali Mwinyi as the winner of the presidential election","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/14208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/14208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18973,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/14208\/revisions\/18973"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=14208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}