Bagaroua

Bagaroua rural community
Bagaroua rural community
Coordinates	14 ° 38 ′  N , 4 ° 21 ′  E Coordinates: 14 ° 38 ′  N , 4 ° 21 ′  E
Basic data
Country	Niger
region	Tahoua
department	Bagaroua
Residents	72,293 (2012)
politics
mayor	Maman Chékaraou (2004)
Political party	PNDS Tarayya

Bagaroua (also: Bagaraoua ) is a rural community and the capital of the Bagaroua department of the same name in Niger .

geography

Bagaroua is located in the southern Sahel region . The neighboring municipalities are Tébaram in the north, Bambeye in the northeast, Illéla in the east, Alléla in the south, Dogonkiria in the west and Kourfeye Center in the northwest. The municipality is divided into 37 administrative villages, two traditional villages, 75 hamlets, a camp and a water point. The main town of the rural community is the village of Bagaroua.

In the municipality of Bagaroua is the Mare de Dan Doutchi lake , whose 38,250 hectare wetland has been under protection under the Ramsar Convention since 2005 .

history

Bagaroua is a Hausa word and means " acacia ". An administrative post ( poste administratif ) was set up in the village in 1970 , a lower administrative unit headed by a chef de poste administratif . The rural community of Bagaroua was separated from the canton of Illéla / Tajaé in 2002 as part of a nationwide administrative reform. In the flood disaster in West and Central Africa in 2010 , 8,596 residents of Bagaroua were classified as disaster victims, more than any other municipality in the Tahoua region. The administrative post of Bagaroua was removed from the Illéla department in 2011 and elevated to the Bagaroua department.

population

At the 2001 census, Bagaroua had 45,112 inhabitants. At the 2012 census, the population was 72,293.

politics

In the local elections in July 2004, Maman Chékaraou ( PNDS-Tarayya ) was elected mayor. On April 15, 2010, the Council of Ministers appointed Garba Fodi as Administrator ( Administrateur Délégué ) of the municipality and Boubacar Mahamadou Maïga as Head of the Administrative Post ( Chef de poste administratif ) of Bagaroua.

Economy and Infrastructure

The municipality is mainly located in an area in which rain-fed agriculture is predominant. In the northwest the zone of agropastoralism begins , in the southeast the zone of irrigation farming . Bagaroua is an important market for trading cowpeas and grain. The municipality is connected to the departmental capital Illéla by the national road 15 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Répertoire National des Communes (RENACOM) . 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. ↑ La Mare de Dan Doutchi. In: Ramsar Sites Information Service. April 13, 2018, accessed March 13, 2019 . 
4. ^ Frédéric Giraut: Retour du refoulé et effet chef-lieu. Analysis d'une refonte politico-administrative virtual au Niger . PRODIG, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-901560-38-5 , pp. 35 ( archives-ouvertes.fr [PDF; accessed August 17, 2013]).
5. ↑ 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.  
6. ↑ 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]).
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. 55.
8. ↑ Presentation of the result globaux définitifs du Quatrième (4ème) Recensement Général de la Population et de l'Habitat (RGP / H) de 2012. (PDF) Institut National de la Statistique, 2014, accessed on May 1, 2014 (French). 
9. ^ Maires du PNDS. (PDF) PNDS-Tarayya , archived from the original on December 2, 2013 ; accessed on February 14, 2018 (French). 
10. ^ Conseil des ministres du Niger on 15 avril 2010. In: Temoust.org. April 16, 2010, archived from the original on April 18, 2010 ; accessed on February 14, 2018 (French). 
11. ^ Comprendre l'économie des ménages ruraux au Niger . Save the Children UK, London 2009 ( online version ( memento of the original from September 27, 2013 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 note. ; PDF; 2.6 MB), p. 8. 
12. ↑ Livelihoods Zoning “Plus” Activity In Niger ( Memento from September 28, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 2.5 MB). 27, Famine Early Warning Systems Network website, published August 2011, accessed January 19, 2012.