Daloa

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Daloa (Ivory Coast)
Daloa
Daloa
Basic data
District : Sassandra-Marahoué
Region : Haut-Sassandra
Department : Daloa
Mayor : Diabaté Kramoko
Coordinates : 6 ° 52 ′  N , 6 ° 27 ′  W Coordinates: 6 ° 52 ′  N , 6 ° 27 ′  W
Area : 5.305 km²
Residents : 319,427 (2014 census)

Daloa is a city in the west of the Ivory Coast with 319,427 inhabitants according to the 2014 census. It is the capital of the Haut-Sassandra region and within this also of the Daloa department, as well as the seat of the Daloa diocese .

Infrastructure

Daloa is located on major north-south and east-west routes and is considered the center of the cocoa trade in the Ivory Coast. Coffee, kola nuts and Sipo wood from the region are also brought from here for shipping to the coast. At the local level, Daloa is a trading center for rice, cassava, yams, bananas and cotton.

Daloa is also on the main route to Yamoussoukro and San-Pédro .

history

Daloa was founded by two Africans, Gboto of the Bété and Dalo of the Gouro, and became a French military post in 1903.

In the civil war in Ivory Coast , Daloa was fought over between the government and the rebels. After the city was captured by government troops in 2002, several dozen civilians were killed as they were suspected of supporting the rebels of the Mouvement patriotique de Côte d'Ivoire .

In the course of the government crisis of 2010/2011 , the city fell into the hands of the Forces républicaines de Côte d'Ivoire on March 29, 2011 .

population

The most important ethnic groups in the city are the Bété and Gouro ; more recently Baule , Dioula and Mossi have also immigrated.

education

Primary schools
public

  • École Primaire Publique

Secondary schools
public lycée

  • Lycée Antoine Gauze
  • Lycées Modernes 1-2-3 et 4

private lycée

  • Lycée Khalil

public college

  • College modern
 University (state)


  • Université Jean Jean Lorougnon Guédé de Daloa ( UJLoG )

Twin cities

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Results of the 2014 census (PDF) Retrieved on January 7, 2016.
  2. ↑ Followers of Ouattara start offensive. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . March 29, 2011, accessed April 4, 2011 .
  3. ^ Côte d'Ivoire: Daloa massacres recall the specter of Youpougon . Amnesty International, October 28, 2002, accessed October 21, 2018.
  4. ↑ Extended military offensive in Ivory Coast. In: ORF. March 29, 2011, accessed April 4, 2011 .