Bosso
| Rural Municipality of Bosso | |||
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| Coordinates | 13 ° 42 ′ N , 13 ° 19 ′ E | ||
| Basic data | |||
| Country | Niger | ||
| Diffa | |||
| department | Bosso | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | NE-2 | ||
| Residents | 65,022 (2012) | ||
Bosso (also: Boso ) is a rural community and the capital of the Bosso department of the same name in Niger .
geography
The Kanuri village is located in the extreme southeast of the country in the Manga countryside . Bosso is located in the Sahel on the Komadougou Yobé River , on the state border with Nigeria and on the former bank of Lake Chad . The regional capital Diffa is 85 kilometers away. The neighboring communities of Bossos in Niger are Kabléwa and N'Guigmi in the north, Toumour in the northwest and Gueskérou in the southwest. From a geological point of view, the place is located in a Quaternary geological area. The municipality is divided into 57 administrative villages, 25 traditional villages, two hamlets, three water points and 60 islands. The main town of the rural municipality is the administrative village of Bosso. Another historically important administrative village in the municipality is Barwa .
history
Bosso was founded and fortified around 1780 by a Tuareg leader named Aoudou. Aoudou's son Tar, Tar's son Abdou and finally, in 1906, Abdou's son Lossey, who assumed the title Katiella, took control of the place. The French research and military expedition, Mission Foureau-Lamy , stopped in Bosso on February 2, 1900.
During the hunger crisis in Niger in 2005, Bosso was one of the worst hit places. Here the population had less than one meal a day available. Since 2011, the rural community no longer belongs to the Diffa department , but to the newly created Bosso department.
After an attack by the Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram on the village of Baga in Nigeria in April 2013, around 2,000 Baga residents fled to Bosso. In the weeks that followed, the number of refugees from Nigeria who sought refuge in Bosso before Boko Haram rose to over 6,000. They came from various places in the Nigerian state of Borno . The armed forces of Niger and the armed forces of Chad fended off an attack by the terrorist group on Bosso on February 6, 2015, which had temporarily occupied the site. Boko Haram's attack on Bosso was the first of the group on Nigerien territory. In April 2015, Boko Haram attacked bases of the Nigerian armed forces on the Lake Chad islands of Lallewa Kerea and Karamga, which belong to Bosso. Around 60 soldiers, 156 Boko Haram fighters and 28 civilians were killed. Shortly afterwards, the Nigerien authorities ordered the evacuation of all inhabited Lake Chad islands. About 25,700 people moved from the islands to the mainland in Bosso and the neighboring community of N'Guigmi. In July 2015, the security situation deteriorated further. There were attacks by Boko Haram on the villages of Tchoukoudjani and Dagaya, which belong to Bosso. People fled from the municipality to the neighboring municipalities of Kabléwa, N'Guigmi and Toumour.
population
At the 2001 census, Bosso had 36,942 residents. At the 2012 census, the population was 65,022.
Economy and Infrastructure
The population mainly does fishing and handicrafts. Leather goods and items made from palm leaves are produced. The market day in Bosso is Sunday. Kouri cattle are kept in the vicinity of the village . Rain farming is practiced in parts of the community .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Thomas Krings: Sahel countries . WBG, Darmstadt 2006, ISBN 3-534-11860-X , p. 16.
- ^ Répertoire National des Communes (RENACOM) . Institut National de la Statistique website, accessed January 22, 2011.
- ^ Republic of Niger: Loi n ° 2002-014 du 11 June 2002 portant création des communes et fixant le nom de leurs chefs-lieux .
- ↑ Edmond Séré de Rivières: Histoire du Niger . Berger-Levrault, Paris 1965, p. 116.
- ↑ Fernand Foureau : Documents scientifiques de la mission saharienne. Mission Foureau-Lamy d'Alger au Congo par le Tchad . Atlas (cartographer: Verlet-Hanus). Masson, Paris 1905 ( jubilotheque.upmc.fr [accessed May 6, 2018]).
- ↑ Niger Food Crisis 2005: Humanitarian Situation Report No. 1 . OCHA reliefweb.int July 26, 2005; Retrieved January 16, 2012.
- ↑ 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]).
- ↑ Yusha'u A Ibrahim: How Borno refugees survive in Bosso. (No longer available online.) In: Weekly Trust. June 1, 2013, archived from the original on February 8, 2015 ; accessed on February 8, 2015 . 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.
- ↑ 109 Boko Haram fighters killed in Niger. In: derStandard.at . February 6, 2015, accessed February 7, 2015 .
- ↑ Niger: Timeline regarding the Humanitarian Situation in Diffa (as of 15 August 2015). (PDF) OCHA , August 5, 2015, accessed on May 21, 2018 (English).
- ^ Annuaire statistique des cinquante ans d'indépendance du Niger . Institut Nationale de la Statistique du Niger, Niamey 2010, stat-niger.org (PDF; 3.1 MB) p. 53.
- ↑ 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 April 18, 2014 (French).
- ↑ Jolijn Geels: Niger . Bradt, Chalfont St Peter 2006, ISBN 1-84162-152-8 , p. 231.
- ^ Jean-Paul Labourdette, Dominique Auzias: Niger 2009 . Nouvelle édition de l'Université, Paris 2009, ISBN 2-7469-1640-1 , pp. 160 .
- ^ Comprendre l'économie des ménages ruraux au Niger . Save the Children UK, London 2009, savethechildren.org.uk ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2013 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; 2.6 MB) p. 8.
