Ayérou

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Ayérou rural commune
Ayérou rural community (Niger)
Ayérou rural commune
Ayérou rural commune
Coordinates 14 ° 44 '  N , 0 ° 55'  E Coordinates: 14 ° 44 '  N , 0 ° 55'  E
Basic data
Country Niger

region

Tillabéri
department Ayérou
ISO 3166-2 NE-6
height 230 m
Residents 32,958 (2010)
politics
mayor Zakaria Moussa (2012)

Ayérou (official spelling; also Ayorou ) is a rural community and the capital of the Ayérou department in Niger .

geography

Primary school in Ayérou

The municipality is located on the eastern bank of the Niger River in the Sahel region . Here the Gorouol flows into the Niger. Ayérou borders the neighboring state of Mali in the north . The neighboring communities in Niger are Inatès in the east, Anzourou in the southeast, Dessa in the south, Bankilaré in the southwest and Gorouol in the west. The municipality is divided into 15 administrative villages (including Doulsou ), three traditional villages, 62 hamlets, 20 camps and 20 water points. The main town of the rural municipality is Ayérou, consisting of the administrative villages of Ayorou Goungou, Ayourou Goungou Koré and Ayorou Haoussa.

The old town is located on an island of the same name in Niger, which gave the municipality its name. Riverside section at Ayourou live hippos and at least 33 different waterfowl species, including bumps gloss geese , Witwenpfeifgänse and crowned cranes .

history

After the ruler of the Songhairian empire Sonni Ali died in 1492, his former general Askiya Muhammad rebelled against Sonni Ali's son and successor, Sonni Baru, and defeated him in a battle in 1493. Sonni Baru fled to Ayérou and established a small state of its own there, which was defeated in 1500 after constant attacks and incorporated into the Songhairian Empire.

The German Africa explorer Heinrich Barth visited the settlement, for which he used the spellings Ayōru and Airu , in 1854. He described it as a tranquil village whose mostly tall inhabitants were dedicated to agriculture. In 1899, the Ayérou area came under French military administration as part of the newly created Sinder district ( cercle de Sinder ) . In 1905 Ayérou was attached to the new military territory of Niger ( Territoire militaire du Niger ).

1964 an administrative reform divided Niger into seven departments, the predecessors of the later regions, and 32 arrondissements, the predecessors of the later departments. Ayérou was added to the newly created Arrondissement Tillabéri , but received the status of an administrative post ( poste administratif ) in the area of ​​the Arrondissement. Administrative posts were special territorial units one level below the arrondissements, which were regarded as a kind of preliminary stage for a later conversion into a separate arrondissement. In 1998, the previous Arrondissements of Nigers were converted into departments. The administrative post of Ayérou was removed from the Tillabéri department in 2011 and raised to the Ayérou department.

Refugees from Mali in the village of Gaoudel in Ayérou (February 2012)

The village of Daya in the municipality of Ayérou was affected by the flood disaster in West and Central Africa in 2010 : 707 residents were classified as victims of the disaster. In the community was in May 2012 as a result of the conflict in northern Mali , the refugee camp Tabareybarey furnished. In October 2013, it housed around 9,000 people, mainly Tuareg , Fulbe and Songhai from the Malian communities of Ansongo and Ouattagouna .

population

At the 2001 census, Ayérou had 24,901 inhabitants. For 2010, 32,958 inhabitants were calculated.

In 2011, 52% of Ayérou's population were classified as poor or very poor in a study by the French non-governmental organization ACTED. More than 72% of the population had access to latrines in the vicinity, which is high compared to other communities in the north of the Tillabéri region.

Culture and sights

The villages and islands of Ayérou, especially Firgoune , are recurring motifs in Jean Rouch's films . In Au pays des mages noirs (1947) Rouch documented a hippo hunt. His short film Initiation à la danse des possédés (1949) depicts the initiation ritual of a young woman and Les Pierres chantantes d'Ayorou (1968) is about local musicians.

Economy and Infrastructure

Market in Ayérou

Sunday is market day in Ayérou. The market then extends over much of the city, from the riverside to the main street. The parish is located in a zone where agropastoralism prevails. The national road 1 runs through Ayérou , which runs along the Niger upstream to the state border with Mali and downstream towards the capital Niamey . The river itself is navigable with pirogues .

Partner municipality

literature

  • Amadou Soumana Moussa: Problématique de la gestion des Hippopotames dans la vallée du Fleuve Niger. Cas d'Ayorou . Faculté d'Agronomie, Université Abdou Moumouni de Niamey, Niamey 2005.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

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  2. ^ Répertoire National des Communes (RENACOM) . Institut National de la Statistique website, accessed January 22, 2011.
  3. ^ Republic of Niger: Loi n ° 2002-014 du 11 June 2002 portant création des communes et fixant le nom de leurs chefs-lieux .
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  5. ↑ Edmond Séré de Rivières: Histoire du Niger . Berger-Levrault, Paris 1965, p. 69.
  6. ^ Heinrich Barth: Travels and discoveries in North and Central Africa . Fifth volume. Justus Perthes, Gotha 1858, p. 263-264 .
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  12. ↑ Tabareybarey Refugee Camp. (PDF) UNHCR , October 2013, accessed November 8, 2014 .
  13. ^ Institut Nationale de la Statistique du Niger (ed.): Annuaire statistique des cinquante ans d'indépendance du Niger . Niamey 2010, stat-niger.org (PDF; 3.0 MB) p. 56.
  14. ^ 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, reliefweb.int (PDF; 317 kB).
  15. ^ Paul Henley: The Adventure of the Real. Jean Rouch and the Craft of Ethnographic Cinema . The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 2009, ISBN 978-0-226-32714-3 , pp. 370-372, 380 .
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  17. ^ Comprendre l'économie des ménages ruraux au Niger . Save the Children UK, London 2009, savethechildren.org.uk ( Memento from September 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 2.6 MB) p. 8.
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  19. ^ Jean-Claude Peyronnet: La solidarité internationale à l'échelle des territoires: état des lieux et perspectives. Annexe 5: Document de travail de l'ambassade de France au Niger sur les coopérations décentralisées dans ce pays. Senate of the French Republic, November 13, 2012, accessed July 5, 2013 (French).