Amina Salum Ali resigns
 
2006-11-09 08:42:22
By Mwinyi Sadallah, Zanzibar

	Amina Salum Ali

Zanzibar minister of State in the Chief Minister’s office, Amina Salum Ali has resigned. According to the Secretary General of the Zanzibar Revolutionary Council, Ramadhan Muombwa, the minister has resigned following her appointment to the UN Commission for Africa in the USA.

”She applied for a job in the Commission and accepted to serve as an African Representative in Washington, DC,” Muombwa said.

He said she was expected to report for work on November 30 this year.

Zanzibar President Amani Abeid Karume accepted her resignation because conditions of the job require the person who holds that title not to hold any political position in her home country.

President Karume congratulated Amina Salum Ali for the new appointment, saying he was proud of her taking up such a prominent post.

”My joy is increased even further that the competent person who has qualified for the position came from my government,” President Karume said.

Amina Salum Ali is one of the long serving cabinet ministers in Zanzibar. She has served as minister since the reign of former President Salmin Amour. She also served as deputy minister for finance in the Union government.

She has been the chairperson of UWT in Zanzibar. She picked up nomination forms for the Isles presidency in 2000 on CCM ticket but was not successful.

She automatically relinquishes her position as UWT national vice chairperson.

She becomes the second Zanzibari to hold high positions in a global organization after Dr. Salim Ahmed Salim, who served as permanent representative to the UN and later as Secretary General of OAU.

• SOURCE: Guardian