Falmey
| Falmey rural community | |||
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| Coordinates | 12 ° 36 ' N , 2 ° 51' E | ||
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| Country | Niger | ||
| Dosso | |||
| department | Falmey | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | NE-3 | ||
| Residents | 75,115 (2012) | ||
Falmey is a rural municipality and the capital of the Falmey department of the same name in Niger .
geography
Falmey is located in the greater Sudan region at the mouths of the Dallol Bosso and Mékrou in the Niger River . The community borders on the neighboring state of Benin in the south . The neighboring communities in Niger are Fabidji in the north, Gollé , Guilladjé and Sambéra in the east and Kirtachi in the west. The W National Park, a world natural heritage site, extends southwest of Falmey .
The municipality is divided into 38 administrative villages, 13 traditional villages and 70 hamlets. The main town of the rural municipality is Falmey, consisting of the administrative villages of Falmey Djerma and Falmey Haoussa. Another important administrative village in Falmey is Boumba .
history
1964 an administrative reform divided Niger into seven departments, the predecessors of the later regions, and 32 arrondissements, the predecessors of the later departments. Falmey was added to the newly created Arrondissement Boboye , but received the status of an administrative post ( poste administratif ) in the area of the Arrondissement. Administrative posts were special territorial units one level below the arrondissements, which were regarded as a kind of preliminary stage for a later conversion into a separate arrondissement. In 1998, the previous Arrondissements of Nigers were converted into departments. The administrative post of Falmey was removed from the Boboye department in 2011 and raised to the Falmey department.
population
At the 2001 census, Falmey had 56,650 inhabitants. At the 2012 census, the population was 75,115.
Economy and Infrastructure
The community is located in a zone where rain-fed agriculture is practiced. There is a cattle market in Malam Koira village. The market day is Friday.
Personalities
- Marou Amadou (* 1972), lawyer and politician, since 2011 Minister of Justice and government spokesman for Niger
- Hama Hima Souley (* 1959), entrepreneur and sports official
literature
- Yahouza Abdou: Diagnostic zootechnique dans deux terroirs villageois du Dallol Bosso sud: Winde-Bago et Boybangou . Faculté d'Agronomie, Université Abdou Moumouni, Niamey 1994.
- Boureima Amadou: Aire protégée et construction de territoire en patrimoine: l'exemple de l'île de Karey Kopto (Niger) . In: Les Cahiers d'Outre-Mer . No. 226/227 , 2004, pp. 155-174 ( journals.openedition.org ).
- IM Bouzou, A. Baechler, B. Yamba, M. Garba: La dynamique des paysages agraires dans deux terroirs villageois de Dallol Bosso: Boye-Bangou et Winde-Bago . In: Annales de l'Université Abdou Moumouni de Niamey . Thème agri-cultures en mutation hors série, 1996, p. 57-74 .
- Jöelle Hauzeur, Laurent Pellé: Fleuve Niger. Toponymie et geographie récentes du W de Kirtachi à Boumba . In: Journal des africanistes , 63rd edition, Paris 1993, pp. 35-66.
- Hassane Issa: Les systèmes de culture au village de Boy-Bangou (Falmey, Boboye) . Faculté d'Agronomie, Université Abdou Moumouni, Niamey 1995.
- Fatimata Mounkaïla : Perception du milieu et dynamique des pratiques de gestion à Boye-Bangou et Windé-Bago (Boboye, Niger) . In: Singaravélou (ed.): Pratiques de gestion de l'environnement dans les pays tropicaux. VIe Journées de Géographie Tropicale du Comité National de Géographie, Commission Espaces Tropicaux et leur Développement. Talence, 6-8 September 1995 (= Espaces tropicaux . No. 15 ). Dynamiques des Milieux et des Sociétés dans les Espaces Tropicaux (DYMSET) / Center de Recherches sur les Espaces Tropicaux (CRET), Talence 1997, ISBN 2-906621-28-5 , p. 287-294 .
- Ibrahim Moussa: Evolution du système de culture dans un terroir villageois sud Boboye: cas de Boy-Bangou . Faculté d'Agronomie, Université Abdou Moumouni de Niamey, Niamey 1999.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Répertoire National des Communes (RENACOM) . ( Memento of the original from January 9, 2017 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 Institut National de la Statistique; Retrieved 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 .
- ↑ Edmond Séré de Rivières: Histoire du Niger . Berger-Levrault, Paris 1965, p. 275.
- ↑ Historique de la decentralization. ANIYA. Réseau des collectivités nigériennes et françaises, archived from the original on April 6, 2012 ; Retrieved January 28, 2014 (French).
- ↑ 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]).
- ^ Institut Nationale de la Statistique du Niger (ed.): Annuaire statistique des cinquante ans d'indépendance du Niger . Niamey 2010, stat-niger.org (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 21, 2014 (French).
- ^ Comprendre l'économie des ménages ruraux au Niger . Save the Children UK, London 2009, savethechildren.org.uk ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2013 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. (PDF; 2.6 MB) p. 8.
- ^ Mahamadou Saley, Yatta Paul Maurice Mohamed: Projet Régional d'Appui au Pastoralisme au Sahel (PRAPS). Etude diagnostique des Systèmes d'Information sur les marchés à bétail du Burkina Faso, du Mali, de la Mauritanie, du Niger, du Sénégal et du Tchad. Définitif report. (PDF) CILSS , November 2016, accessed on May 2, 2018 (French).
