Bosso (department)

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Bosso department
Departments in the Diffa region by 2011
Departments in the Diffa region by 2011
Basic data
Country Niger
region Diffa
Seat Bosso
Residents 76,735 (2012)
ISO 3166-2 NE-2
politics
prefect Amadou Amidou

Coordinates: 13 ° 42 ′  N , 13 ° 19 ′  E

Bosso is a department in the region of Diffa in Niger .

geography

The department is located in the southeast of the country in the Manga countryside and borders Nigeria and Chad . It consists of the rural parishes of Bosso and Toumour . The eponymous capital of the department is Bosso.

history

The department goes back to the administrative post ( poste administratif ) of Bosso, which was separated from the Diffa department in 2011 and raised to the Bosso department.

population

Schoolchildren in Bosso (2017)

According to the 2012 census, the Bosso department has 76,735 inhabitants. From 2001 to 2012, the population increased by an average of 4.0% annually (nationwide: 3.9%).

administration

Bosso Prefecture (2017)

At the head of the department is a prefect (French: préfet ) who is appointed by the Council of Ministers on the proposal of the Minister of the Interior .

Prefect of the Bosso Department
Term of office Surname
Feb. 29, 2012 - Jun. 25, 2015 Aboubacar Mamadou Marah
(aka Aboubakar Mamadou Marah)
Jun 25, 2015 - Mar 13 2020 Boureima Seyni
since March 13th 2020 Amadou Amidou

Web links

Commons : Bosso (Department)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Diffa. (No longer available online.) In: Projet d'Appui au Processus de la Décentralization. Ministère de l'Intérieur, de la Sécurité Publique, de la Décentralization et des Affaires Religieuses, archived from the original on February 2, 2014 ; Retrieved January 28, 2014 (French). 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / decentralization-niger.org
  2. ↑ 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]).
  3. ↑ 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).
  4. ↑ Présentation des résultats préliminaires du Quatrième (4ème) Recensement Général de la Population et de l'Habitat (RGPH) 2012. (PDF) Institut National de la Statistique du Niger, April 2013, pp. 5–6 , accessed on January 28 2014 (French).
  5. ↑ Au Conseil des ministres: Le gouvernement adopte plusieurs projets de textes et des mesures nominatives . In: Le Sahel . March 1, 2012, p. 4 ( nigerdiaspora.net [PDF; accessed October 15, 2018]).
  6. ↑ Au conseil des ministres du 25 June 2015: Deux projets de décret, des mesures nominatives et des communications. In: Niger Diaspora. June 26, 2015, accessed October 14, 2018 (French).
  7. ↑ Communiqué du Conseil des ministres du vendredi 13 mars 2020. In: Niger Diaspora. March 14, 2020, accessed on March 20, 2020 (French).