Dargol
| Dargol rural community | |||
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| Coordinates | 13 ° 55 ' N , 1 ° 15' E | ||
| Basic data | |||
| Country | Niger | ||
| Tillabéri | |||
| department | Gothèye | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | NE-6 | ||
| height | 261 m | ||
| surface | 4080 km² | ||
| Residents | 147,779 (2012) | ||
| density | 36.2 Ew. / km² | ||
Dargol (also: Darghol ) is a rural community in the Gothèye department in Niger .
geography
Dargol is located in the southern Sahel on the Niger River and borders the neighboring state of Burkina Faso in the southeast . The neighboring communities in Niger are Kokorou in the northwest, Sinder in the north, Gothèye in the northeast, Torodi in the southeast and Diagourou and Téra in the west. There are 50 villages, 270 hamlets and a camp in the municipality. The main town of the rural community is the village of Dargol. The largest village by population is Bandio .
Dargol is characterized by a steppe landscape. Here grow acacia , Wüstendatteln and grass species such as Andropogon gayanus and Cenchrus biflorus . The river Dargol flows through the municipality .
history
After the fall of the Songhai Oak's 1591 belonged Dargol, first under the name Sonhey to those places in what is now Niger, on which Songhai -Flüchtlinge under a descendant of the former ruling dynasty Askia settled. This also applied to the villages of Bangou Tara , Garbougna , Guériel and Kossogo , which are now part of the municipality of Dargol.
In the 19th century, the Songhai rulers of Dargol maintained their alliances with other Songhai areas and tried to come to terms with the hostile Fulbe and Tuareg at the same time . The German Africa explorer Heinrich Barth described in the 1850s, without being able to determine the location of the place, the inhabitants as "very belligerent, armed with shield, sword and spear". Called by Dargol to help that destroyed Zarma Rulers Issa Korombé from Karma place Lamordé and took Kollo one. The ruler Oumarou Bani, who came to power in Dargol in 1891, formed an alliance with the Tuareg, while under the hand he continued to support other Tuareg-suppressed Songhai areas. Upon the arrival of the French , Oumarou Bani presented himself as a supporter of the resistance, in line with his alliance with the Tuareg, while a delegation from Dargol under Gueydou Ouankoy greeted the French.
In 1899, Dargol came under French military administration as part of the newly created Sinder district. In 1905 the place was incorporated into the new military territory of Niger. The French colonial administration established a canton in Dargol , which in 1956 became part of the Téra Autonomous County, later the Téra Department . In the course of a nationwide administrative reform in 2002, the canton of Dargol was converted into the rural municipality of Dargol. When the hunger crisis in Niger in 2005, the rural community was one of the hardest hit places. Here the population had less than one meal a day available. In the 2008 floods, 147 people suffered material damage. 17 houses were completely destroyed. During the flood disaster in West and Central Africa in 2010 , 1225 residents of Dargol were classified as disaster victims. Since 2011 Dargol has not belonged to the Téra department, but to the newly founded Gothèye department.
population
At the 2012 census, Dargol had 147,779 inhabitants, of which 4814 in the main town and 9237 in the village of Bandio. The population at the 2001 census was 88,329. The population is made up of Songhai, Tuareg, Fulbe and Wogo . Hausa traders from Niger and other traders from abroad also live in the immigrant quarter ( Zongo ) in the main town .
Culture
The village of Dartchandé in Dargol is a traditional Djesseré center . This is a special kind of narrator who passes on historical traditions in long lectures.
Economy and Infrastructure
The economic cornerstones of the community are agriculture and cross-border trade with Burkina Faso. There are eight weekly markets in Dargol. Over 300 traders offer their goods at the weekly market in the main town, the one in the village of Bandio, which also has a cattle market, is even more important. Millet and sorghum are grown for personal use . The cultivation of black peas , peas , peanuts, okra and sesame is mainly used for commercial purposes. Irrigation farming for rice is practiced especially near rivers .
Various mineral resources are available in the municipality, including gold. The gold deposits are the target of immigrants who work there under unhealthy conditions. Conversely, young men from Dargol go to Ghana , Lomé , Benin , the Ivory Coast and Nigeria for seasonal labor migration .
The Center de Santé Intégré (CSI) health center in the main town was responsible for caring for over 43,500 people in 2016. Dargol is located on the national road 4 , which connects the place with the neighboring communities Gothèye and Téra.
Personalities
- Boubacar Boureima (* 1958), diplomat
- Tinguizi (around 1913–1983), narrator at the court of Dargol
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Répertoire National des Localités (ReNaLoc). (RAR) Institut National de la Statistique de la République du Niger, July 2014, pp. 440–447 , accessed on 7 August 2015 (French).
- ^ Republic of Niger: Loi n ° 2002-014 du 11 JUIN 2002 portant création des communes et fixant le nom de leurs chefs-lieux .
- ↑ a b c d Présentation de la commune de Dargol ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Website of the ANIYA Coopération Décentralisée Niger-France, published January 2007, accessed on January 27, 2012.
- ↑ Edmond Séré de Rivières: Histoire du Niger . Berger-Levrault, Paris 1965, p. 74.
- ^ A b Edmond Séré de Rivières: Histoire du Niger . Berger-Levrault, Paris 1965, p. 76.
- ^ Heinrich Barth: Travels and discoveries in North and Central Africa . Fifth volume. Justus Perthes, Gotha 1858, p. 733 .
- ↑ Edmond Séré de Rivières: Histoire du Niger . Berger-Levrault, Paris 1965, p. 95.
- ↑ Edmond Séré de Rivières: Histoire du Niger . Berger-Levrault, Paris 1965, pp. 234-235.
- ↑ Edmond Séré de Rivières: Histoire du Niger . Berger-Levrault, Paris 1965, p. 238.
- ↑ OCHA : Niger Food Crisis 2005: Humanitarian Situation Report No. 1 ( online version ), published July 26, 2005, accessed January 16, 2012.
- ↑ Situation des dégâts causés par les inondations (2008) ( Memento of the original of 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 November 18, 2008, accessed 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.
- ↑ 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]).
- ^ Répertoire National des Communes (RENACOM). (RAR file) Institut National de la Statistique, accessed November 8, 2010 (French).
- ↑ a b c Paul Cottavoz: WASH et choléra - stratégie bouclier dans les aires de santé les plus affectées des régions sanitaires de Tillabéri, Tahoua et Maradi. Rapport d'évaluation. (PDF) UNICEF Niger, May 2016, pp. 50 and 52 , accessed on October 26, 2018 (French).
- ↑ Hamadou Seini: Zarma-Songhoï Verbal Artistry and Expression: From the Epic to the Francophone Novel, with a Focus on Intertextual Dialogue Across the Genres . Dissertation. University of Colorado, Boulder 2013, pp. 31 ( scholar.colorado.edu [PDF; accessed April 2, 2020]).
