Galma Koudawatché

Galma Koudawatché rural community
Galma Koudawatché rural community
Coordinates	14 ° 5 '  N , 5 ° 48'  E Coordinates: 14 ° 5 '  N , 5 ° 48'  E
Basic data
Country	Niger
region	Tahoua
department	Madaoua
Residents	57,255 (2012)
politics
mayor	Mahamadou Dakaré (2012)

Galma Koudawatché (short: Galma ) is a rural community in the Madaoua department in Niger .

geography

Galma Koudawatché is located at the transition from the Sudan to the Sahel zone . The neighboring communities are Tama in the northwest, Azarori in the northeast, Madaoua in the southeast, Sabon-Guida in the south and Doguérawa in the west. The municipality is divided into 24 villages, 22 hamlets and two camps. The main town of the rural community is the village of Galma Koudawatché (also: Galma Sédentaire). It is located in the Arewa Valley, a side valley of the Tarka Valley . Other larger villages in the municipality are Magaria Makéra Bakalé and Nassaraoua Takoulé .

history

The village of Galma Nomade is an old rulership of the Tuareg subgroup Kel Gress, which goes back to the Kel-Gress leader Wanna Goda, who ruled from 1692 to 1732. Starting in 1579, the Kel Gress had moved from their previous settlement area in the Aïr high mountains, stage by stage, southwards. Today's main town Galma Koudawatché (Galma Sédentaire) was founded around 1800. Koudawatché was the name of a village chief known for his courage and strength. The village of Galma Koudawatché is subordinate to the Kel-Gress leader of Galma Nomade, but is mostly inhabited by Hausa .

As a result of the famine in the Sahel region in the 1970s and 1980s , which was accompanied by massive cattle deaths, agriculture gained in importance over cattle breeding. Galma Koudawatché was hit by a devastating flood in 1994, which left several people dead and destroyed fertile arable land. As a result, some residents emigrated to Nigeria and the neighboring community of Sabon-Guida.

The rural community of Galma Koudawatché emerged from part of the canton of Madaoua in 2002 as part of a nationwide administrative reform.

population

At the 2001 census, Galma Koudawatché had 33,965 inhabitants. At the 2012 census, the population was 57,255.

Culture and sights

In the village of Gogé in the municipality of Galma Koudawatché there is a room with snakes, for which a ram is sacrificed every seventh lunar month .

Economy and Infrastructure

The community is located in the narrow zone along the border with Nigeria, which extends from Tounouga in the west to Malawa in the east and is used in irrigation farming for cash crops . In the Galma Koudawatché village of Magaria Makéra Bakalé is one of three tanneries in the Tahoua region . The other two are in the regional capital Tahoua and in the rural municipality of Tamaské .

literature

• Rabiou M. Boubé: Impacts socio-économiques et écologiques des opérations de récupération des terres dégradées dans le département de Madaoua. Cas de la commune de Galma Koudawatché . Faculté d'Agronomie, Université Abdou Moumouni de Niamey, Niamey 2012.
• François Fauquet: Dynamiques des ressources environnementales et mutations des systèmes agro-stylo-pastoraux en milieu tropical semi-aride: le cas de la vallée d'Arewa (Niger Central) . Thèse de doctorat en geographie. Université Joseph Fourier de Grenoble I, Grenoble 2005 ( biw.kuleuven.be [PDF]).
• Arzika Mani Djika: Analysis diagnostique du système de gestion des ressources naturelles des bassins versants traités en CES / DRS. Cas de terroirs villageois de Magaria Kochimawa et Magaria Tacha Kaji (Madaoua) . Faculté d'Agronomie, Université Abdou Moumouni de Niamey, Niamey 2001.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} National Repertoire des Localités (ReNaLoc). (RAR) Institut National de la Statistique de la République du Niger, July 2014, pp. 361–362 , accessed on August 7, 2015 (French). 
2. ^ Republic of Niger: Loi n ° 2002-014 du 11 JUIN 2002 portant création des communes et fixant le nom de leurs chefs-lieux .
3. ^ François Fauquet: Dynamiques des ressources environnementales et mutations des systèmes agro-stylo-pastoraux en milieu tropical semi-aride: le cas de la vallée d'Arewa (Niger Central) . Thèse de doctorat en geographie. Université Joseph Fourier de Grenoble I, Grenoble 2005, p. 7 ( biw.kuleuven.be [PDF; accessed September 14, 2018]).
4. ^ François Fauquet: Dynamiques des ressources environnementales et mutations des systèmes agro-stylo-pastoraux en milieu tropical semi-aride: le cas de la vallée d'Arewa (Niger Central) . Thèse de doctorat en geographie. Université Joseph Fourier de Grenoble I, Grenoble 2005, p. 78–79 ( biw.kuleuven.be [PDF; accessed on 14 September 2018]).
5. ^ François Fauquet: Dynamiques des ressources environnementales et mutations des systèmes agro-stylo-pastoraux en milieu tropical semi-aride: le cas de la vallée d'Arewa (Niger Central) . Thèse de doctorat en geographie. Université Joseph Fourier de Grenoble I, Grenoble 2005, p. 63 and 172 ( biw.kuleuven.be [PDF; accessed on September 14, 2018]).
6. ^ 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. 56.
7. ↑ 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 May 1, 2014 (French). 
8. ↑ Présentation de Tahoua, région phare de la sixième édition du SAFEM 2009 ( Memento of the original of July 14, 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. (PDF; 887 kB). P. 9, SAFEM website , accessed on March 5, 2012. 
9. ^ 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. 
10. ↑ Présentation de Tahoua, région phare de la sixième édition du SAFEM 2009 ( Memento of the original of July 14, 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. (PDF; 887 kB). P. 8, SAFEM website , accessed on December 19, 2012.