Background
Juma, Omar Ali was born on June 26, 1941 in Chake Chake, Zanzibar, Tanzania. Son of Ali and Fatma Juma.
Juma, Omar Ali was born on June 26, 1941 in Chake Chake, Zanzibar, Tanzania. Son of Ali and Fatma Juma.
Bachelor Veterinary Medicine and Surgery, Moscow Veterinary Academy, 1967. Postgraduate certified Animal Production & Health, Cairo University, 1970. Postgraduate diploma Tropical Veterinary Medicine, Edinburgh University, 1977.
Short course on diseases, University Florida, 1977. Course in Livestock Economics, Reading University, United Kingdom, 1982.
From 1995 to 2001, he served as Vice President of Tanzania. Foreign a year from 1969 he was at Cairo University for a post graduate certificate in Animal Production and Health. In 1976 he attended a one-year course for a Post Graduate Diploma in Tropical Veterinary Medicine at Edinburgh University.
In 1982 he joined the University of Florida in the United States of America for a short course in Veterinary Science and two years later he was at Reading University, United Kingdom, for a Livestock Economics course from which he joined the Kivukoni Ideological College (Tanzania).
1967-1969 Assistant Veterinary Officer, Zanzibar
1969-1970 Veterinary Officer in charge of Pemba
1970-1971 Senior Veterinary Officer
1971-1972 Livestock Officer
1972-1978 Chief Veterinary Officer
1978-1984 Director, Livestock Department
1984-1988 Principal Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development
1988-1995 Chief Minister, Zanzibar Revolutionary Government
1995-2001 Elected Vice President of the United Republic of Tanzania.
Member national Executive Committee Nippon Electric Corporation (CCM), since 1987, central committee, Tanzania, since 1988. Member Afro-Shirz Party (Association of Software Professionals), Zanzibar, 1958-1977. Member Chama Cha Mapinduzi, Tanzania, since 1977.
Member Tanzania Veterinary Association, Tanzania Animal Production Society.
Married Salma Mwalimu Ali, October 10, 1967. Children: Issa, Fatma, Mwalimu, Khalid, Zuhura, Ali, Hafsa, Khairat, Zakia.