Anney

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Location of Anney in Niger

Anney (also: Aney ) is a village in the Dirkou municipality in Niger .

The oasis is located in the northeast of the country in the Kaouar Valley in the Ténéré desert . Huts made of palm leaves and gardens with date palms are grouped around an old fort on a rocky hill . The German Africa researcher Gerhard Rohlfs reached Anney ("Anay") in 1866, which according to his description had 100 to 150 low houses and huts with over 500 inhabitants. The German African explorer Gustav Nachtigal visited Anney ("Anai") near his Sahara-Crossing 1869/1870. He estimated the population at that time to be around 180, whereby the approximately 100 dwellings could accommodate 400 people. The village had 525 inhabitants in 143 households in the 1988 census, 1058 inhabitants in 229 households in the 2001 census and 651 inhabitants in 120 households in the 2012 census. The population consists of Guézébida , tubu mixed with Kanuri .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gerhard Göttler: Sahara . DuMont, Cologne 2002, p. 370 .
  2. ^ A b Dominique Auzias, Jean-Paul Labourdette: Niger . Petit Futé, Paris 2009, ISBN 978-2-7469-1640-1 , pp. 193 .
  3. ^ Gerhard Rohlfs : Across Africa: Kauar and the Tebu in the Gutenberg-DE project
  4. ^ Gerhard Rohlfs: Across Africa . K. Thienemanns Verlag, Stuttgart / Vienna 1984, ISBN 3-522-60580-2 , chap. 9 .
  5. ^ Gustav Nachtigal: Sahara and Sudan. Results of six years of travel in Africa. First part . 1879, p. 542 .
  6. ↑ Recensement Général de la Population 1988: Répertoire National des Villages du Niger . Bureau Central de Recensement, Ministère du Plan, République du Niger, Niamey March 1991, p. 37 ( ceped.org [PDF; accessed January 31, 2018]). www.ceped.org ( Memento from January 31, 2018 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ^ Répertoire National des Communes (RENACOM). (RAR file) Institut National de la Statistique, accessed November 8, 2010 (French).
  8. ↑ Répertoire National des localites (ReNaLoc). (RAR) Institut National de la Statistique de la République du Niger, July 2014, p. 7 , accessed on 7 August 2015 (French).

Coordinates: 19 ° 21 '  N , 12 ° 52'  E