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**Dar es Salaam — The Civic United Front (CUF) has appealed to Pope Francis to intervene in the political impasse in Zanzibar.
CUF Secretary-General Seif Shariff Hamad says in his two-page letter to the pontiff that the crisis is threatening peace and religious tolerance in the isles.**
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