Dabaga
| Dabaga rural community | |||
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| Coordinates | 17 ° 19 ′ N , 8 ° 8 ′ E | ||
| Basic data | |||
| Country | Niger | ||
| Agadez | |||
| department | Tchirozérine | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | NE-1 | ||
| Residents | 23,969 (2012) | ||
| politics | |||
| mayor | Ahmed Emini (2012) | ||
Dabaga is a rural municipality in the Tchirozérine department in Niger .
geography
Dabaga is located in the south of the Aïr high mountains in the northern Sahel region . The municipality is divided into 46 administrative villages, seven traditional villages, two hamlets, seven camps and seven water points. The main town of the rural community is the oasis town of Dabaga, consisting of the traditional village of Dabaga I and the administrative village of Dabaga II. The neighboring communities are Dannet and Timia in the north, Tabelot in the east, Aderbissinat in the south and Ingall and Tchirozérine in the west. In addition, the regional capital Agadez is completely surrounded by the municipality of Dabaga.
The "Forêt classée de Dabaga" is a 1050 hectare protected forest area in the municipality of Dabaga. It was placed under protection in 1959.
history
One of the oldest larger settlements in the municipality and in the entire Aïr is the village of Aoudéras . The rural community of Dabaga was established as an administrative unit in 2002 in a previously unincorporated area. In October 2007 there was an incident involving MSF . The project had to be canceled. In 2009, floods caused material damage, which directly affected around 10,000 residents. In the flood disaster in West and Central Africa in 2010 , 1692 residents of Dabaga were classified as disaster victims.
population
At the 2001 census, Dabaga had 18,286 inhabitants. At the 2012 census, the population was 23,969. Mainly Tuareg live in this region , occasionally also Hausa .
Economy and Infrastructure
In the main town of Dabaga there is a livestock market that is particularly important for trade with Algeria . In the village of Elméki , tin mining began in the 1950s .
Partner municipality
literature
- Heinrich Barth : Travels and discoveries in North and Central Africa in the years 1849 to 1855. Gotha 1857–58, 5 vols., Here vol. 1.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Répertoire National des Communes (RENACOM) . Institut National de la Statistique website, accessed January 22, 2011.
- ^ Republic of Niger: Loi n ° 2002-014 du 11 JUIN 2002 portant création des communes et fixant le nom de leurs chefs-lieux .
- ↑ Données disponibles pour chaque forêt classée ( Memento of July 29, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ). Website of the Direction de l'Environnement, Ministère de l'Hydraulique, de l'Environnement et de la Lutte Contre la Désertification, accessed on 25 February 2012.
- ↑ Jolijn Geels: Niger . Bradt, Chalfont St Peter 2006, ISBN 1-84162-152-8 , p. 183 .
- ↑ Doctors Without Borders Halts Activities in Central Niger ( Memento of the original from April 16, 2012 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. . Doctors Without Borders website, published October 24, 2007, accessed January 28, 2011.
- ↑ Situation des besoins des populations victimes d'inondations (2009) ( Memento of the original dated 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 on September 22, 2009, accessed on March 31, 2012.
- ↑ Situation des besoins des populations victimes d'inondations (2010) ( Memento of the original from October 16, 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. . Website of the Center d'Information et de Communication, published on September 23, 2010, accessed on March 31, 2012.
- ^ 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. 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).
- ↑ Livelihoods Zoning “Plus” Activity In Niger ( Memento from September 28, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 2.5 MB). 15, Famine Early Warning Systems Network website, published August 2011, accessed January 19, 2012.
- ^ Frederick E. Brusberg: Economy and society of Aoudéras, a community of the Saharan Aïr Massif (Niger) . Dissertation. McGill University, Montreal 1988, pp. 103-104 ( digitool.library.mcgill.ca [PDF; accessed May 11, 2018]).
- ^ Jean-Claude Peyronnet: La solidarité internationale à l'échelle des territoires: état des lieux et perspectives. Annexe 5: Document de travail de l'ambassade de France au Niger sur les coopérations décentralisées dans ce pays. Senate of the French Republic, November 13, 2012, accessed July 6, 2013 (French).
