Banibangou

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Banibangou rural parish
Banibangou rural community (Niger)
Banibangou rural parish
Banibangou rural parish
Coordinates 15 ° 3 '  N , 2 ° 42'  E Coordinates: 15 ° 3 '  N , 2 ° 42'  E
Basic data
Country Niger

region

Tillabéri
department Banibangou
ISO 3166-2 NE-6
Residents 53,395 (2010)

Banibangou (also: Bani Bangou ) is a rural community and the capital of the Banibangou department of the same name in Niger .

geography

Banibangou is located in the Sahel zone and borders the neighboring state of Mali in the north . The neighboring communities in Niger are Abala in the east, Dingazi and Filingué in the south and Tondikiwindi in the west. The municipality is divided into 28 administrative villages, 65 traditional villages, 17 hamlets, nine camps and three water points. The main town of the rural community is Banibangou, consisting of the administrative villages of Bani Bangou Djerma and Banibangou Haoussa. A side valley of the Wadi Dallol Bosso runs through the municipality .

history

The place name means "good pond". Banibangou received 1964 the status of an administrative post ( French : poste administratif ). The deputy gendarmerie commander was killed in an attack by the Aïr and Azawad Liberation Front on Banibangou in 1992. The rural community (French: commune rurale ) Banibangou was established as an administrative unit in 2002 when the canton of Tondikiwindi was divided into the newly created rural communities of Tondikiwindi and Banibangou. In 2008 floods caused material damage, which directly affected over 800 residents. The administrative post of Banibangou was removed from the Ouallam department in 2011 and elevated to the Banibangou department. At the border town of Siné Godar in the municipality of Banibangou, a refugee camp was set up in 2012 for people who fled in the course of the conflict in northern Mali . In 2020, 88 people were killed and several injured in a terrorist attack on the Siné Godar military post.

population

At the 2001 census, Banibangou had 40,351 residents. For 2010, 53,395 inhabitants were calculated. The majority of the population are Zarma , followed by the Fulbe , Tuareg and Hausa .

In 2011, 99% of the population of Banibangou were classified as poor or very poor in a study by the French non-governmental organization ACTED. More than 66% of the population had no access to latrines in the vicinity.

Economy and Infrastructure

The population lives mainly from cattle breeding, agriculture and trade. The parish is located at the transition from the agropastoral zone of the south to the zone of pure grazing in the north. The national road 24 runs through Banibangou, which connects the place with the Nigerien capital Niamey , but cannot be used in the rainy season. The remote location is one of the structural reasons for the recurring food insecurity in the community, which is severely affected by emigration to the capital and abroad.

literature

  • Hamani Oumarou: La construction du «local» et la governance communale par le bas. L'exemple de la commune rurale de Banibangou (Niger). Etudes et Travaux du LASDEL n ° 86 . Laboratoire d'études et de recherches sur les dynamiques sociales et le développement local (LASDEL), Niamey / Parakou 2011 ( online version ; PDF; 640 kB).

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. ↑ Wolfgang Neumann: Thirty Years Through Africa. Memoirs 1959–1990 . Text tape. Self-published, Bärensprung 2005, ISBN 978-3-00-015854-4 , p. 333 .
  4. ↑ Edmond Séré de Rivières: Histoire du Niger . Berger-Levrault, Paris 1965, p. 275.
  5. ^ André Salifou : La question touarègue au Niger . Karthala, Paris 1993, ISBN 2-86537-434-3 , pp. 124 .
  6. ↑ Situation des dégâts causés par les inondations (2008) ( Memento of the original of February 2, 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. . Center d'Information et de Communication website, published November 18, 2008, accessed March 31, 2012. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.cic.ne
  7. ↑ 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]).
  8. ^ Nicole Lawrence: The Sahel: Fleeing from conflict at home, Malian refugees find a food crisis in Niger. OCHA, February 16, 2012, accessed on January 10, 2020 .
  9. ^ Communiqué du Ministère de la Défense Nationale: 25 soldiers tombés sur le champ d'honneur et 63 terroristes neutralisés dans une attaque perpétrée contre le poste militaire avancé de Chinagodar. In: Niger Diaspora. January 10, 2020, accessed on January 10, 2020 (French).
  10. ^ 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.
  11. ↑ a b c Hamani Oumarou: La construction du "local" et la governance communale par le bas. L'exemple de la commune rurale de Banibangou (Niger). Etudes et Travaux du LASDEL n ° 86 . Laboratoire d'études et de recherches sur les dynamiques sociales et le développement local (LASDEL), Niamey / Parakou 2011 ( online version  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check Link according to the instructions and then remove this note .; PDF; 640 kB), p. 9.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.lasdel.net  
  12. ^ 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 ( online version ; PDF; 324 kB).
  13. ^ 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.savethechildren.org.uk