Abala (Niger)
| Abala rural community | |||
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| Coordinates | 14 ° 56 ' N , 3 ° 26' E | ||
| Basic data | |||
| Country | Niger | ||
| Tillabéri | |||
| department | Abala | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | NE-6 | ||
| Residents | 75,177 (2010) | ||
Abala is a rural community and the capital of the Abala department in Niger .
geography
Abala is located in the Sahel on the Dallol Bosso and borders on the neighboring state of Mali in the north . The neighboring communities in Niger are Tillia in the east, Sanam in the southeast, Kourfeye Center in the south, Filingué in the southwest and Banibangou in the west. The municipality is divided into 45 administrative villages, 32 traditional villages, 72 hamlets, four camps and five water points. The main town of the rural community is Abala, consisting of the administrative villages of Abala Arabe I, Abala Arabe II, Abala Guirnazan, Abala Maidagi, Abala Moulela and Abala Toudou.
history
The main town Abala was founded in 1931 by immigrants from Filingué who built their first houses at the Abalé waterhole ( Tuareg for " gushing out "). Settlers from Sanam established the villages of Kourfa and Djakassa in 1947. The village of Tabotakit (translated "between the dunes") was founded in 1948 and the village of Chimbarkawane (translated "young rhinoceros") in 1955. These and other administrative villages were in turn the starting point for the construction of the surrounding hamlets. Abala received 1964 the status of an administrative post ( French poste administratif ). The great drought from 1968 to 1976 largely brought further settlement activity to a standstill. Like Kourfeye Center and Sanam, the place was separated from the canton of Kourfey in 2002 and became an independent rural community. In 2009, floods caused material damage in numerous villages in the municipality, directly affecting 7210 residents. The administrative post of Abala was removed from the Filingué department in 2011 and elevated to the Abala department. A refugee camp was set up in the community in March 2012 as a result of the conflict in northern Mali . The camp was home in October 2013, 14,000 people, mostly Tuaregs from the Malian community Anderamboukane .
population
At the 2001 census, Abala had 56,803 inhabitants. For 2010, 75,177 inhabitants were calculated. Around 80% of the population of Abala were classified as poor or very poor in a 2011 study by the French non-governmental organization ACTED. More than 81% of the population had no access to latrines in the vicinity.
Economy and Infrastructure
The parish is located at the transition from the agropastoral zone of the south to the zone of pure grazing in the north. In Abala there is a cattle market where the breeders sell their animals themselves. The market day is Thursday. National road 25 runs through Abala and connects the town with the neighboring communities of Filingué and Sanam.
literature
- Xavier Bernier: Les consequénces des sécheresses récentes sur le développement agropastoral au nord de Filingué (Niger) . Travail d'Etude et de Recherche. Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble September 1988 ( univ-savoie.fr [PDF; accessed January 22, 2014]).
- Abdoul-Kader Issoufou: L'agriculture face aux incertitudes liées aux changements climatiques dans la commune d'Abala risques climatiques perceptions, effets et stratégies de résilience des ménages agricoles . Mémoire. Faculté d'Agronomie, Université Abdou Moumouni de Niamey, Niamey 2014.
- Tilman Musch: Wells and Fields. Territoriality in West Niger (Abala) . Köppe, Cologne 2012, ISBN 978-3-89645-895-7 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Répertoire National des Communes (RENACOM) . Institut National de la Statistique website, accessed January 22, 2011.
- ↑ Republic of Niger: Loi n ° 2002-014 du 11 JUIN 2002 portant création des communes et fixant le nom de leurs chefs-lieux Republic of Niger Loi n ° 2002-014 du 11 JUIN 2002 portant création des communes et fixant le nom de leurs chefs -lieux. Retrieved January 9, 2019 .
- ↑ Xavier Bernier: Les Consequences of sécheresses récentes sur le développement agropastoral au nord de Filingué (Niger) . Travail d'Etude et de Recherche. Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble September 1988, p. 43–44 ( archive.org [PDF; accessed January 22, 2014]).
- ↑ Edmond Séré de Rivières: Histoire du Niger . Berger-Levrault, Paris 1965, p. 275.
- ↑ Xavier Bernier: Les Consequences of sécheresses récentes sur le développement agropastoral au nord de Filingué (Niger) . Travail d'Etude et de Recherche. Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble September 1988, p. 48 ( archive.org [PDF; accessed January 22, 2014]).
- ↑ http://www.cic.ne/IMG/xls/Inondations_2009.xls (link not available)
- ↑ Une nouvelle loi sur le redécoupage administratif . In: L'Arbre à Palabres . No. 13 , August 11, 2011, p. 2 ( nigerdiaspora.net [PDF; accessed on January 28, 2014]).
- ^ Abala Refugee Camp. (PDF) UNHCR , October 2013, accessed November 8, 2014 .
- ^ 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.
- ^ Départements de Tillabéri, Ouallam et Filingué, Region of Tillabéri. Evaluation of the Humanitarian Situation . Agence d'aide à la coopération technique et au développement (ACTED), Paris 2011 ( online version ; PDF; 324 kB).
- ^ Comprendre l'économie des ménages ruraux au Niger . Save the Children UK, London 2009 ( online version ( Memento from September 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ); PDF; 2.6 MB), p. 8.
- ^ Mahamadou Saley, Yatta Paul Maurice Mohamed: Projet Régional d'Appui au Pastoralisme au Sahel (PRAPS). Etude diagnostique des Systèmes d'Information sur les marchés à bétail du Burkina Faso, du Mali, de la Mauritanie, du Niger, du Sénégal et du Tchad. Définitif report. (PDF) CILSS , November 2016, accessed on May 2, 2018 (French).
