Gaffati

Gaffati rural community
Gaffati rural community
Coordinates	13 ° 50 '  N , 9 ° 6'  E Coordinates: 13 ° 50 '  N , 9 ° 6'  E
Basic data
Country	Niger
region	cinder
department	Mirriah
surface	420 km²
Residents	41,731 (2010)
density	99.4  Ew. / km²

Gaffati (also: Gafati ) is a rural community in the Mirriah department in Niger .

geography

Gaffati lies in the Sahel zone and is cut through by a range of hills that are difficult to pass. The neighboring communities are Dakoussa in the northwest, Albarkaram in the north, Damagaram Takaya and Mazamni in the northeast, Zermou in the east, Mirriah in the southeast, Kolléram in the south and the regional capital Zinder in the southwest. The municipality is divided into 52 administrative villages, 37 traditional villages, 37 hamlets and 24 camps. The main town of the rural community is the village of Gaffati.

history

The place Gaffati was founded as the rulership of the village chief Daouda dan Ténimoun, who was in office from 1790 to 1799. Daouda is considered a member of the ruling dynasty of the Zinder Sultanate , which was only founded in 1812 by Sélimane dan Tintouma , but traces its lineage back to a pious man named Mallam who lived in the 17th century. Until 1899 Gaffati belonged to the Bornu Empire - from 1812 to the Sultanate of Zinder, which was part of Bornus - and then came to France . The French colonial administration established a canton in Gaffati at the beginning of the 20th century and allowed a small market to be held. The dissolved canton of Guéza was attached to the canton of Gaffati in 1924. In 2002, as part of a nationwide administrative reform, the canton of Gaffati became the rural community of Gaffati. In 2008, 80 fields were flooded in the village of Angoual Zoulou and several houses were destroyed. 745 villagers were classified as victims.

population

At the 2001 census, Gaffati had 30,733 residents. For 2010, 41,731 inhabitants were calculated. Members of the Hausa subgroup Magouzawa live in Gaffati , who practice arable farming, agropastoralism and farmer grazing .

Economy and Infrastructure

There are 22 public primary schools in Gaffati. In 2002 a small middle school was opened. There are problems with the drinking water supply in the villages in the north and east of the rural community. The dry valley of Zermou , which runs through the municipality, is dammed at the Kassama dam . The reservoir is used for agricultural irrigation, as a cattle trough and for fish farming.

Personalities

• Abdou Daouda († 2009), politician

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Présentation de la commune de Gaffati  ( 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, accessed on February 23, 2012.  
2. ↑ Répertoire National des Communes (RENACOM) ( Memento of the original from January 9, 2017 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 notice. . Institut National de la Statistique website, accessed January 22, 2011. 
3. ^ Republic of Niger: Loi n ° 2002-014 du 11 JUIN 2002 portant création des communes et fixant le nom de leurs chefs-lieux .
4. ↑ Edmond Séré de Rivières: Histoire du Niger . Berger-Levrault, Paris 1965, p. 135.
5. ^ ^{A b} Edmond Séré de Rivières: Histoire du Niger . Berger-Levrault, Paris 1965, p. 250.
6. ↑ Hassane Gandah Nabi: Commerçants et entrepreneurs du Niger (1922-2006) . L'Harmattan, Paris 2013, ISBN 978-2-336-29136-9 , pp. 37 .
7. ↑ 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.  
8. ^ 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. 57.
9. ↑ Ministère de l'élevage et des industries animales / République du Niger (ed.): La mobilité pastorale dans la Région de Zinder. Stratégies et dynamisme des sociétés pastorales . Niamey 2009 ( online version ( Memento of the original from July 13, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note .; PDF; 11, 3 MB), p. 30. 
10. ^ Dams of Africa. (xlsx) Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), accessed on September 23, 2018 . 
11. ↑ Ibrahim Mamadou, Maman Waziri Mato, Mahaman Nouri Maman Moussa, Moussa Elh Issoufou Assane: Dynamique actuelle et impacts socio-économiques du barrage de Kassama dans la région de Zinder au Niger . In: Revue Ivoirienne des Sciences et Technologie . No. 27 , 2016, ISSN  1813-3290 , p. 105 ( researchgate.net [accessed September 23, 2018]).