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Mohamed Gharib Bilal is a Tanzanian politician who was Chief Minister of Zanzibar from 1995 to 2000.

Education

Doctor Bilal completed his primary education at Makunduchi, Zanzibar in 1958 and attended his secondary education at Beit-el-Ras in 1962 and later joined Lumumba Secondary School in Zanzibar.

He earned an Master of Arts in physics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1969, and a Doctor of Philosophy in physics in 1976.

Career

He was Vice President of Tanzania from 2010 to 2015.

He is a nuclear scientist by profession and also served as Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education from 1990 to 1995. Before completing Form Five, Doctor Bilal received a scholarship to study physics at Howard University in Washington, graduating in physics and mathematics in 1967.

Later the same year he joined the University of Dar es Salaam a