{{short description|President of Zanzibar from 1990 to 2000|bot=PearBOT 5}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = Honorable | name = Salmin Amour | honorific_suffix = | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | order = 5th | office = President of Zanzibar | term_start = 25 October 1990 | term_end = 8 November 2000 | taoiseach = | predecessor = Idris Abdul Wakil | successor = Amani Abeid Karume

| office1 = Second Vice President of Tanzania | term_start1 = 9 November 1990 | term_end1 = 23 November 1995 | president1 = Ali Hassan Mwinyi | 1blankname1 = 1st Vice President | 1namedata1 = John Malecela<BR>Cleopa Msuya | predecessor1 = Ali Hassan Mwinyi | successor1 = Omar Ali Juma<BR>(as sole Vice President)

| birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1942}} | birth_place = Mkwajuni, Zanzibar | birth_name = | party = Afro-Shirazi Party <br /> Chama Cha Mapinduzi | spouse = Bi. Azza | relations = | children = 12 | alma_mater = Leipzig University<br>Parteihochschule Karl Marx | occupation = Civil Servant | profession = Politician | cabinet = | committees = | portfolio = | signature = | signature_alt = | website = | footnotes = | blank1 = | data1 = | native_name_lang = ar | native_name = {{nobold|سلمين عمور}} }}

'''Salmin Amour''' (born 1942) is a Tanzanian politician who served as President of Zanzibar from 25 October 1990 to 8 November 2000. He was elected in 1990 as the sole candidate and received 98 percent of the votes.<ref>{{Cite book | last = Kalley | first = Jacqueline Audrey | last2 = Schoeman | first2 = Elna | last3 = Andor | first3 = Lydia Eve | title = Southern African political history: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997 | publisher = Greenwood Publishing Group | year = 1999 | pages = 631 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=oVrVK2ElINMC&pg=PA631 | isbn =0-313-30247-2 }}</ref> In Tanzania's first multi-party elections in 1995, Amour was accused of rigging the Zanzibari presidential election by opposition leader Seif Shariff Hamad.<ref>{{Citation | last = Saleh | first = Ally | author-link = | title = Zanzibar braces for trouble | newspaper = BBC News | publisher = BBC | date = 24 October 2000 | url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/988378.stm | accessdate =15 June 2010 }} </ref>

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