But Tanzania’s Membe said the conflict started in the early 1960s, when the first Malawian president, Dr Hastings Kamuzu Banda, claimed that Lake Nyasa and the whole of Mbeya in Tanzania were part of Malawi using the 1890-Heligoland treaty.
Alisema Uhuru kamili wa waafrika wa Zanzibar ni ule wa mwaka 1964 na siyo wa Disemba 10, 1963 kama inavyoaminiwa na vibaraka walioosalia Zanzibar wakienddelea kumuunga mkono Sultan aliyepinduliwa Zanzibar Januari 12,1964 Jamshed bin Abdullah.