Gabou Goura

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Location of Gabou Goura in Niger
Main street in Gabou Goura (2018)

Gabou Goura (also: Gabagoura , Gabougoura ) is a village in the Niamey I arrondissement of the city of Niamey in Niger .

The village, led by a traditional chief (chef traditionnel) , is located on the Niger River in the west of the rural area of ​​Niamey I. The surrounding settlements include the village of Tondibiah in the northwest and the village of Kossèye in the southeast.

In the village, which is not far from the Tondibiah military camp , social housing for the Ministry of Defense has been built. The first 53 apartments were completed in 2012. In 2015, the then Defense Minister Mahamadou Karidio opened the Cité Karidio Mahamadou named after him , a complex of 200 other social housing. In August 2017, the floods in Gabou Goura destroyed 239 adobe houses.

At the 2012 census, Gabou Goura had 2,402 inhabitants who lived in 384 households. At the 2001 census, the population was 1,551 in 198 households, and at the 1988 census, the population was 1,200 in 166 households.

The public primary school Ecole primaire de Gabou Goura was founded in 1974. Women from the village practice irrigation farming .

Web links

Commons : Gabou Goura  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b National Repertoire des Localités (ReNaLoc). (RAR) Institut National de la Statistique de la République du Niger, July 2014, p. 715 , accessed on August 7, 2015 (French).
  2. ↑ Zabeirou Moussa: Réception de logements sociaux du Ministère de la défense national 200 logements neufs flambant dénommés "Cité Karidio Mahamadou". In: ActuNiger. July 15, 2015, accessed June 6, 2016 (French).
  3. ↑ Au Niger, des intempéries meurtrières et destructrices. In: RFI Afrique. August 31, 2017, accessed June 3, 2019 (French).
  4. ^ Répertoire National des Communes (RENACOM). (RAR) (No longer available online.) Institut National de la Statistique de la République du Niger, archived from the original on January 9, 2017 ; Retrieved November 8, 2010 (French). 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.stat-niger.org
  5. ↑ 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. 222 ( archive.org [PDF; accessed May 4, 2019]).
  6. ↑ Daniel Barreteau, Ali Daouda: Systèmes éducatifs et multilinguisme au Niger. Results scolaires, double flux . Orstom / Université Abdou Moumouni de Niamey, Paris / Niamey 1997, ISBN 2-7099-1365-8 , p. 85 ( ird.fr [PDF; accessed May 29, 2019]).
  7. ↑ Laouali Souleymane: Mission de suivi de l'installation de la campagne agro-sylvo-pastorale et hydraulique dans la région de Niamey au titre de la campagne 2015: Plusieurs localités et arrondissements communaux sillonnés par la délégation. In: aNiamey.com. July 27, 2015, accessed June 1, 2019 (French).

Coordinates: 13 ° 33 '  N , 2 ° 1'  E