Bankilaré

Rural community of Bankilaré
Rural community of Bankilaré
Coordinates	14 ° 35 '  N , 0 ° 43'  E Coordinates: 14 ° 35 '  N , 0 ° 43'  E
Basic data
Country	Niger
region	Tillabéri
department	Bankilaré
Residents	32,186 (2010)

Bankilaré is a rural community and the capital of the bankilaré department of the same name in Niger .

geography

Bankilaré is located in the southern Sahel between the Niger River and the state border with Burkina Faso . The neighboring communities in Niger are Gorouol in the north, Ayérou and Dessa in the east and Kokorou and Téra in the south. The municipality is divided into eight administrative villages, two traditional villages, a hamlet, 42 camps and a water point. The main town of the rural municipality is the administrative village of Bankilaré.

history

In 1899, the Bankilaré area came under French administration, initially as part of the Sinder district and later as part of the canton of Gorouol. In order to manage the nomadic Tuareg and Fulbe living in this area, an administrative post was set up in Bankilaré in 1959. Bankilaré was next to Kolmane and Yatakala the third village in the canton of Gorouol, which was important for purposes of political administration. In the course of this, the place received several infrastructural facilities such as a gendarmerie post and a health center. A primary school had already been opened in 1956. In the Bankilaré area there was still significant cultivation of millet in the 1960s . After that, poor climatic conditions and sterile soils led to a sharp decline in arable farming. In the independent Niger (from 1960) Bankilaré retained the status of an administrative post. In the course of the long unsuccessful efforts to decentralize the country from the 1990s onwards, local Tuareg leaders campaigned for Bankilaré to break away from Gorouol. It was not until the nationwide administrative reform of 2002 that Bankilaré became a rural community independent of Gorouol. During the hunger crisis in Niger in 2005, Bankilaré was, like Gorouol, one of the worst affected places. Here the population had less than one meal a day available. The administrative post of Bankilaré was removed from the department of Téra in 2011 and elevated to the department of Bankilaré.

population

At the 2001 census, Bankilaré had 24,328 inhabitants. For the year 2010 32,186 inhabitants were calculated.

Economy and Infrastructure

Wet rice cultivation is practiced on the Niger River . The rest of the municipality belongs to a zone in which some agropastoralism is still practiced . In December 1999, the country's first local public radio ( radio communautaire ) began operating in the main town. Bankilaré is on the national road 5 , which connects the town with the neighboring municipalities of Gorouol and Téra.

literature

• Ilias Abou-Saghid: Les interactions agriculture-élevage dans les systèmes de production d'agropasteurs tamacheq de la zone de Bankilaré . Faculté d'Agronomie, Université Abdou Moumouni, Niamey 1995.
• Saley Batouré: Diagnostic environnemental et proposition d'aménagement de la mare de Lemdou (Arrondissement de Téra) . Faculté d'Agronomie, Université Abdou Moumouni de Niamey, Niamey 2000.
• Eric Komlavi Hahonou: La chefferie coutumière face au projet de decentralization dans une localité de l'Ouest nigérien . In: Bulletin de l'APAD , 23-24 / 2002 ( online version ).
• Eric Komlavi Hahonou: Partis et dynamiques politiques locales dans les futures communes rurales de Bankilaré et du Gorouol (=  Etudes et Travaux du LASDEL . No. 28 ). LASDEL, Niamey / Parakou April 2004 ( lasdel.net [PDF]).
• Eric Komlavi Hahonou: Les premiers pas de la commune de Bankilaré (an 4) (=  Etudes et Travaux du LASDEL . No. 77 ). LASDEL, Niamey / Parakou June 2009 ( lasdel.net [PDF]).
• Tilman Musch: Discourses about the "landlessness" of former nomads. Two conflict cases in Sadina (Western Niger) . In: Law in Africa . Vol. 14, No. 1 , 2011, ISSN  1435-0963 , p. 85-100 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Répertoire National des Communes (RENACOM) . Institut National de la Statistique website, accessed November 8, 2010.
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. ↑ Edmond Séré de Rivières: Histoire du Niger . Berger-Levrault, Paris 1965, p. 234.
4. ↑ OCHA : Niger Food Crisis 2005: Humanitarian Situation Report No. 1 ( online version ), published July 26, 2005, accessed January 16, 2012.
5. ↑ 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]).
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. ^ 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. 
8. ↑ La situation de la communication pour le développement au Niger (Etat des lieux). Tome 1. (PDF; 461 kB) Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2003, p. 23 , accessed on November 1, 2019 (French).