Bilabrine (N'Guigmi)

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Location of bilabrin in Niger

Bilabrin (also Bélabirim , Bélabirin , Bilabrine , Boulabirina , Boula Brin , Boulabrin ) is a village in the municipality of N'Guigmi in Niger .

The village is located north of Lake Chad , around six kilometers west of the state border with Chad . The city center of N'Guigmi, the capital of the N'Guigmi department of the same name in the Diffa region , is located about 37 kilometers to the southwest.

The French adventurer Stéphane Desombre stopped in Bilabrin in 1937 while crossing the North-South Sahara . In 2015, the Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram , from neighboring Nigeria , also began attacking targets in Niger. Attacks in Bilabrin occurred on the night of October 29-30, 2019, with twelve Nigerien soldiers killed and eight others wounded, and on the night of May 18-19, 2020, with twelve killed and around twenty wounded soldiers.

At the 2001 census, Bilabrin had 838 inhabitants in 181 households. At the 1988 census, the population was 260 in 66 households.

There is a health center in the village with a Center de Santé Intégré (CSI). There is a market.

Bilabrin is the birthplace of the politician Mohamed Bazoum (* 1960).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stéphane Desombre: Aventures saharenes . Les Nouvelles Éditions Latines, Paris 1950, p. 105 .
  2. ↑ 109 Boko Haram fighters killed in Niger. In: derStandard.at . February 6, 2015, accessed August 14, 2020 .
  3. ↑ 12 militaires nigériens tués et 8 blessés dans une attaque terroriste (Ministère de la Défense Nationale). Agence Nigérienne de Presse, October 31, 2019, accessed on August 14, 2020 (French).
  4. ^ Moussa Aksar: Région de Diffa: 12 militaires nigériens tués et une vingtaine de blessés dans une attaque terrorist. In: L'Événement Niger. May 19, 2020, accessed on August 14, 2020 (French).
  5. ^ Répertoire National des Communes (RENACOM). (RAR file; 1.5 MB) Institut National de la Statistique, accessed on November 8, 2010 (French).
  6. ↑ Recensement Général de la Population 1988: Répertoire National des Villages du Niger . Bureau Central de Recensement, Ministère du Plan, République du Niger, Niamey March 1991, p. 64 ( web.archive.org [PDF; 14.8 MB ; accessed on May 4, 2019]).
  7. ^ Niger DSS. In: Systems Nationale d'Information Sanitaire (SNIS). Ministère de la Santé Publique, République du Niger, accessed on August 14, 2020 (French).
  8. ↑ Niger. Evaluation of the faisabilité du transfer monétaire multisectoriel in the region of Diffa. (PDF; 1.8 MB) REACH Initiative, August 2019, p. 46 , accessed on August 14, 2020 (French).
  9. ^ Curriculum Vitae Bazoum. (PDF; 41 kB) Gouvernement de la République du Niger, accessed on August 14, 2020 (French).

Coordinates: 14 ° 26 '  N , 13 ° 25'  E