Kourteye

Kourteye rural parish
Kourteye rural parish
Coordinates	13 ° 51 '  N , 1 ° 36'  E Coordinates: 13 ° 51 '  N , 1 ° 36'  E
Basic data
Country	Niger
region	Tillabéri
department	Tillabéri
surface	1112 km²
Residents	66,379 (2010)
density	59.7  Ew. / km²

Kourteye is a rural municipality in the department of Tillabéri in Niger .

geography

The municipality is located in the south of the department on the left bank of the Niger River . The neighboring communities are Tillabéri , Sakoïra and Ouallam in the north, Simiri in the east, Karma and Namaro in the south and Gothèye in the west. The municipality is divided into 56 administrative villages, 67 traditional villages, 27 hamlets and a camp. The main town of the rural municipality is the administrative village of Sansané Haoussa . The large villages such as Sansané Haoussa, Lossa Kado, Sona and Kokomani are located in the western part of the municipality near the river. The historically important administrative village of Sorbon Haoussa also belongs to the municipality .

Kourteye is located in the Sahel zone and is characterized by harmattan and monsoons . The climatic conditions are divided into a rainy season (from May to September), a cold dry season (from October to February) and a hot dry season (from March to May). In geological terms, the municipality belongs to the Precambrian geological age . Formative rocks are granite and slate . The soils are ferrous, loamy or characterized by dunes. Among other things, there are gallery forests along the Niger . The plateaus are bushland where acacias , kinkeliba and desert dates thrive.

history

Kourteye is named after the Kurtey ethnic group . The name Kurtey comes from kourou tê ( Zarma ), which means "the herd is complete". This name can be traced back to the fact that the Kurtey immigrated in small groups from the Massina Empire in the first half of the 19th century and found their way into their new settlement area on the Niger. In 1904 the French founded the canton of Kurtey ( canton des Kourtey ), which in 1905 was attached to the newly created military territory of Niger ( Territoire militaire du Niger ) and from which the rural community of Kourteye emerged in 2002. In 2008 floods destroyed 129 houses and huts in the village of Dia Dia, where a total of over 1,000 people suffered material damage. During the flood disaster in West and Central Africa in 2010 , more than 1000 residents of Kourteye were also classified as victims of the disaster, including almost 800 in the village of Sorbon Haoussa.

population

Kourteye is the most populous municipality in the department , ahead of the regional capital Tillabéri . At the 2001 census, Kourteye had 50,171 inhabitants. For 2010, 66,379 inhabitants were calculated. The main ethnic groups in the municipality are Zarma - Songhai , Kurtey, Fulbe and Bella . The dominant language is Zarma.

Economy and Infrastructure

More than 90 percent of the working population of Kourteye are engaged in agriculture. There is fishing in the village of Lossa and on the island of Kouboutchiré. The Fulbe and Tuareg in the villages of Tamtala and Balleybangou work in livestock farming.

The geomorphological conditions in the community make it difficult to use the underground drinking water resources.

Personalities

• Amadou Diado (* 1940), journalist, born in the village of Dalway

literature

• Souley Mounkeila: Perception paysanne et stratégies d'adaptation à la variabilité et aux changements climatiques des populations locales du bassin du fleuve Niger dans le domaine de la gestion des ressources naturelles. Cas du terroir de Lossa (commune rurale de Kourteye) . Center Régional d'Enseignement Spécialisé en Agriculture (CRESA), Niamey 2009.
• Oumarou Noma: Caractérisation de bassins-versants de Kokomani-Sona-Lossa (canton de Kourthey, département de Tillabéri) . Faculté d'Agronomie, Université Abdou Moumouni, Niamey 1994.

Web links

• Website of the German Society for Technical Cooperation: Ibrahim A. Amoukou: Un village nigérien face au changement climatique (PDF) (French)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Répertoire National des Communes (RENACOM) ( Memento of the original from January 9, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Institut National de la Statistique website, accessed January 22, 2011. 
2. ^ Republic of Niger: Loi n ° 2002-014 du 11 JUIN 2002 portant création des communes et fixant le nom de leurs chefs-lieux .
3. ↑ Edmond Séré de Rivières: Histoire du Niger . Berger-Levrault, Paris 1965, pp. 78-79.
4. ↑ Edmond Séré de Rivières: Histoire du Niger . Berger-Levrault, Paris 1965, p. 235.
5. ↑ Situation des dégâts causés par les inondations (2008) ( Memento of the original of February 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Center d'Information et de Communication website, published November 18, 2008, accessed March 31, 2012. 
6. ↑ Situation des besoins des populations victimes d'inondations (2010) ( Memento of the original from October 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Website of the Center d'Information et de Communication, published on September 23, 2010, accessed on March 31, 2012. 
7. ^ Institut Nationale de la Statistique du Niger (ed.): Annuaire statistique des cinquante ans d'indépendance du Niger . Niamey 2010 ( online version ; PDF; 3.1 MB), p. 56.