Bangui (Niger)

Bangui rural parish
Bangui rural parish
Coordinates	13 ° 41 ′  N , 6 ° 12 ′  E Coordinates: 13 ° 41 ′  N , 6 ° 12 ′  E
Basic data
Country	Niger
region	Tahoua
department	Madaoua
surface	1,308.2 km²
Residents	140,446 (2012)
density	107.4  Ew. / km²
politics
mayor	Oumarou Mamane (2012)

Bangui is a rural municipality in the department of Madaoua in Niger .

geography

Bangui lies at the transition from the large Sudan to the Sahel zone and borders the neighboring state of Nigeria in the south . The neighboring communities in Niger are Madaoua and Ourno in the north, Dan-Goulbi and Guidan Roumdji in the east and Sabon-Guida in the west. The municipality is divided into 76 administrative villages, 23 traditional villages, 111 hamlets and a camp. The main town of the rural community is the administrative village of Bangui.

The Forêt classée de Bangui is a 3275 hectare protected forest area in the municipality of Bangui. It was placed under protection in 1954.

history

Bangui was founded by Fulbe . In the 1960s, the markets in the villages of Bangui and Takorka were important transhipment points for peanuts , Niger's most important export at the time. The rural community Bangui emerged as an administrative unit in 2002 as part of a nationwide administrative reform from the southeastern part of the canton of Madaoua.

population

At the 2001 census, Bangui had 75,903 residents. At the 2012 census, the population was 140,446. The population consists mainly of Hausa , Tuareg and Fulbe. The predominant language is Hausa .

Culture and sights

Every year in February the Hotoungo takes place in Bangui , a festival of the Fulbe cattle breeders.

Economy and Infrastructure

The community is located in the narrow zone along the border with Nigeria, which extends from Tounouga in the west to Malawa in the east and is used in irrigation farming for cash crops . National Road 1 , which is part of the international Dakar-N'Djamena Highway , and National Road 17 run through Bangui .

literature

• Moussa M. Bouda: Etude d'aménagement de la forêt classée de Bangui . Faculté d'Agronomie, Université Abdou Moumouni, Niamey 1994.
• Ralph Harold Faulkingham: The spirits and their cousins: Some aspects of belief, ritual, and social organization in a rural Hausa village in Niger (=  Anthropology Department Research Report . No. 15 ). University of Massachusetts Amherst, January 1975 ( scholarworks.umass.edu [PDF]).

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. ↑ Données disponibles pour chaque forêt classée ( Memento of July 29, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ). Website of the Direction de l'Environnement, Ministère de l'Hydraulique, de l'Environnement et de la Lutte Contre la Désertification, accessed on 25 February 2012.
4. ↑ Marguerite Dupire: Peuls nomades: étude descriptive of du Sahel Wodaabe Nigeria . Institut d'Ethnologie, Paris 1962, p. 25.
5. ↑ Yves Péhaut: L'arachide au Niger (=  Études d'économie africaine Série Afrique noire. . No. 1 ). Pedone, Paris 1970, p. 87 .
6. ^ 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.
7. ↑ 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). 
8. ^ Report on the commune rurale de Bangui . In: Le Magazine de l'ONG RAIL . No. 1, November 2008 ( online version ( Memento of the original from May 2, 2014 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 notice. ) , P. 18. 
9. ↑ Présentation de Tahoua, région phare de la sixième édition du SAFEM 2009 ( Memento of the original of July 14, 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. (PDF; 887 kB). P. 6, SAFEM website , accessed on March 5, 2012. 
10. ^ 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.