Arlit

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Municipality of Arlit
Municipality of Arlit (Niger)
Municipality of Arlit
Municipality of Arlit
Coordinates 18 ° 44 '  N , 7 ° 23'  E Coordinates: 18 ° 44 '  N , 7 ° 23'  E
Basic data
Country Niger

region

Agadez
department Arlit
ISO 3166-2 NE-1
height 421 m
Residents 79,725 (2012)
politics
mayor Bachir Abdoulaziz (2004)
Political party PNDS Tarayya

Arlit is a mining town in Niger . It is the capital of the Arlit department on the eastern edge of the Aïr Mountains. The city is best known for its uranium mining .

geography

A mosque modeled on the Great Mosque of Agadez in Arlit (2018)
Street scene in Arlit (2018)
Street scene in Arlit (2018)

Arlit is located in the north of the country in the Ténéré desert , around 200 kilometers southeast of the Nigerian- Algerian border town of Assamaka and around 250 kilometers north of the city of Agadez .

Arlit is divided into several districts: Akokan Carré A, Akokan Carré B (Birni), Akokan Carré C (Madina), Boukoki Est (Akokan), Boukoki I, Boukoki II, Carré Nouveau Marché, Carré SNTN, Cité COMINAK (Cité Akokan) , Cité SOMAÏR Areva, Sahel, Takirssa Chétima (Baghdad), Tamèsna (Quartier Administratif), Tchétchéni, Tchingalène, Wadata and Zango. The village of Madawella and the camps Tassilim I and Tassilim II also belong to the municipality.

history

Arlit was founded in 1969 to exploit the nearby uranium deposits that still form the city's economic base today. It was named after the Arrli water point north of the settlement . The mining company SOMAÏR invested about 7.84 billion CFA francs in the construction of the city until 1976 . In the 1970s, the mining company COMINAK had its own large Akokan district built to the southwest of the center. After that, uranium prices fell, so Arlit felt this and market opportunities shrank from the 1980s.

The Dakar Rally took place through Arlit in 1979, 1987, 1988 and 1997. Remoteness and uranium mining make the region interesting for Islamist terrorists . In 2010, five French people working for the Areva nuclear group as well as a Togoese and a Madagascar were allegedly kidnapped by Al-Qaeda in the Maghreb in Arlit . They were released three years later and could return to France.

population

At the 1977 census, Arlit had 10,386 inhabitants, the 1988 census was 32,272 and the 2001 census was 67,398. At the 2012 census, the population was 79,725. Arlit is the second largest city in terms of inhabitants in the Agadez region after its capital Agadez. The population included Kel-Ewey- Tuareg , who lived on modest gardening.

politics

In the local elections in July 2004, Bachir Abdoulaziz ( PNDS-Tarayya ) was elected mayor. On April 15, 2010, the Council of Ministers appointed Algabid Daouda as an Associate Administrator ( Administrateur Délégué ) of the municipality.

Arlit is the seat of a Tribunal de Grande Instance, one of the ten civil courts of first instance nationwide.

Culture

Arlit is a setting for the 1972 novel Le tambour des sables by Jacqueline Cervon .

Economy and Infrastructure

Mining

Uranium mining near Arlit (1981)

The extraction of uranium ore is mainly in the hands of the French nuclear company Areva, which is accused of concealing increased radioactive pollution in the area and the miners.

Agriculture and Commerce

Gardening is practiced in Arlit, and millet in particular is grown. You can also buy camels, goats and cheese in the markets. Potatoes, wheat, (dried) tomatoes, garlic, pepper, dates, citrus fruits and pomegranates are also purchased for the local market. Grains and dates are taxable.

traffic

Due to the mining industry, the city has a relatively good infrastructure , for example an airport, despite its remote location . Arlit is now on the main route of the so-called Hoggar slope, the route from the Algerian Tamanrasset through the Sahara to Niger, through the asphalt national road 25 to Agadez . Seen from the north, the sand runway ends here and turns into an asphalt road. Nevertheless, the expanded route via Arlit is still avoided today by a considerable number of the trucks coming from and to Algeria in the trans-Saharan trade and cleared at the border town of Assamaka. In particular, goods traffic to the south-western regions of the Niger and the capital Niamey often continue past Arlit on shorter slopes, some of which follow the old caravan routes. On the way to Agadez, the landscape of the desert, which is still completely devoid of vegetation, gradually changes into the Sahel zone, which is initially sparsely overgrown and later interspersed with more and more trees .

Personalities

literature

  • Moussa Barmou Bangana: Prize en compte des changements climatiques dans les plans de développement communaux au Niger. Cas de la Commune Urbaine d'Arlit (Region d'Agadez) . Mémoire. Faculté d'Agronomie, Université Abdou Moumouni de Niamey, Niamey 2015.
  • Souleymane Issaka Boureima: Etat de l'environnement dans la ville d'Arlit. The principales sources de pollution metal et organique . Faculté d'Agronomie, Université Abdou Moumouni de Niamey, Niamey 2017.
  • Danièle Poitou: Arlit, ville pionnière de l'industrialisation nigérienne . In: L'Afrique et l'Asie modern . tape 133 , no. 2 , 1982, ISSN  0399-0370 , p. 29-47 .

Web links

Commons : Arlit  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Abdourahmane Idrissa, Samuel Decalo: Historical Dictionary of Niger . 4th edition. Scarecrow, Plymouth 2012, ISBN 978-0-8108-6094-0 , pp. 375 .
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  12. ^ Maires du PNDS. (PDF) PNDS-Tarayya , archived from the original on December 2, 2013 ; accessed on February 14, 2018 (French).
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