Foulatari
| Rural Municipality of Foulatari | |||
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| Coordinates | 13 ° 33 ' N , 12 ° 3' E | ||
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| Country | Niger | ||
| Diffa | |||
| department | Maïné-Soroa | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | NE-2 | ||
| Residents | 30,953 (2012) | ||
Foulatari (also: Foulatéri ) is a rural community in the Maïné-Soroa department in Niger .
geography
Foulatari is located in the Manga landscape in the Sahel . The neighboring communities are N'Guelbély in the northwest, N'Gourti in the northeast, Chétimari in the southeast and Maïné-Soroa in the southwest. The settlements in the municipality are 101 villages, 80 hamlets , 140 camps and 22 water points. The main town of the rural community is the village of Foulatari.
history
The rural municipality of Foulatari was created as an administrative unit in 2002 as part of a national administrative reform when the territory of the canton of Maïné-Soroa was divided into the municipalities of Foulatari, Maïné-Soroa and N'Guelbély.
The regional capital Diffa was attacked in February 2015 by the jihadist terrorist group Boko Haram from Nigeria . As early as May 2013, around 150,000 people from neighboring Nigeria had fled to Diffa because of the activities of Boko Haram. Now Foulatari was one of the places that took in refugees from Diffa.
population
At the 2001 census, Foulatari had 3,007 inhabitants. At the 2012 census, after enlarging the municipal area, the population was 30,953. Semi-nomadic Fulbe live in the community .
Economy and Infrastructure
The south of Foulatari belongs to the zone of rain-fed agriculture , the north is dominated by pasture farming. In between there is an area in which agropastoralism is the predominant form of employment.
Personalities
- Abdoua Kanta (1946–2017), journalist, writer and film director
literature
- Idi Sanoussi: Changements climatiques et nouvelles pratiques pastorales dans la commune rurale de Foulatari (département de Maîné Soroa) . Thesis. Faculté des Lettres et Sciences Humaines, Université Abdou Moumouni de Niamey, Niamey 2014.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Répertoire National des localites (ReNaLoc). (RAR) Institut National de la Statistique de la République du Niger, July 2014, pp. 53–60 , accessed on August 7, 2015 (French).
- ↑ Loi n ° 2002-014 du 11 JUIN 2002 portant création des communes et fixant le nom de leurs chefs-lieux . République du Niger, June 11, 2002.
- ↑ Niger: Timeline regarding the Humanitarian Situation in Diffa (as of 15 August 2015). (PDF) OCHA , August 5, 2015, accessed on May 21, 2018 (English).
- ^ 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 21, 2014 (French).
- ^ Marguerite Dupire: Les facteurs humains de l'économie pastorale . 2nd edition, Center nigérien de recherches en sciences humaines, Niamey 1972, p. 39.
- ^ Comprendre l'économie des ménages ruraux au Niger . Save the Children UK, London 2009 ( online version ( memento of the original from September 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. ; PDF; 2.6 MB), p. 8.
