Fadama

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Location of Fadama in Niger

Fadama is a village in the Guéchémé commune in Niger .

Fadama is located around 15 kilometers north of the municipal capital Guéchémé. The commune belongs to the Tibiri department in the Dosso region . The departmental capital, Tibiri, is located about 13 kilometers northeast and the regional capital Dosso about 76 kilometers west of Fadama. The village is located 230  m above sea level on the west bank of the large, periodically water-bearing dry valley Dallol Maouri . Fadama is often hit by floods. The place name comes from the Hausa language , in which fadama generally refers to an alluvial land that is suitable for dry farming.

At the 2012 census, Fadama had 3,603 inhabitants living in 565 households. At the 2001 census, the population was 2,768 in 342 households, and at the 1988 census, the population was 3,832 in 557 households.

There is a market and a mosque in the village, as well as two elementary schools and one middle school. About 150 hectares of land are available for growing vegetables . Several thousand cattle, sheep and goats are kept each time.

Fadama is the birthplace of the diplomat Joseph Diatta .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b National Repertoire des Localités (ReNaLoc). (RAR) Institut National de la Statistique de la République du Niger, July 2014, p. 181 , accessed on 7 August 2015 (French).
  2. ^ A b Inventaire des Ressources Hydrauliques: Fiche Village de Fadama. (PDF) Institut National de la Statistique de la République du Niger, May 8, 2007, accessed on April 26, 2018 (French).
  3. ↑ M. Tiepolo, M. Ali, M. Bacci, S. Braccio, H. Issa, AZ Oumarou: Analyze du risque d'inondation dans les communes de la Région de Dosso au Niger, 1998-2016. (PDF) Projet ANADIA 2.0, report no. 5. Agence Italienne pour la Coopération au Développement, 2018, p. 31 , accessed on April 26, 2018 (French).
  4. ↑ Harold D. Gunn, FP Conant: Peoples of the Middle Niger Region, Northern Nigeria (=  Ethnographic Survey of Africa: Western Africa . No. 15 ). International African Institute, London 1960, pp. 23 .
  5. ^ Répertoire National des Communes (RENACOM). (RAR file) Institut National de la Statistique, accessed November 8, 2010 (French).
  6. ↑ Recensement Général de la Population 1988: Répertoire National des Villages du Niger . Bureau Central de Recensement, Ministère du Plan, République du Niger, Niamey March 1991, p. 100 ( ceped.org [PDF; accessed January 31, 2018]). www.ceped.org ( Memento of the original dated January 31, 2018 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ceped.org
  7. ↑ Le nouveau Représentant permanently du Niger présente ses lettres de créance. BIO / 3066. United Nations, April 4, 1997, accessed April 26, 2018 (French).

Coordinates: 13 ° 2 ′  N , 3 ° 54 ′  E