Jamshid bin Abdullah, the last Sultan of Zanzibar died on December 30, 2024, in Oman after a prolonged illness and advanced age. He died at Sultan Qaboos Royal Hospital in Muscat, members of the royal family said. He was buried at the royal family cemetery in Muscat.
Abdullah was Sultan until the 1964 revolution, which toppled his government and forced him to flee to Britain, where he lived in Portsmouth with his family for 56 years before moving to Oman on September 15, 2020.
