Gawèye (Niamey)

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Gawèye district
Coordinates 13 ° 29 ′  N , 2 ° 6 ′  E Coordinates: 13 ° 29 ′  N , 2 ° 6 ′  E
Basic data
Country Niger

Capital District

Niamey
Arrondissement Niamey V
ISO 3166-2 NE-8
Residents 6956 (2012)

Gawèye (also: Gaoueye , Gawaye ) is a district ( French : quartier ) in the Arrondissement Niamey V of the city of Niamey in Niger .

geography

Boulevard du Developpement on the northern edge of Gawèye (2018)

The district is bordered by the Kirkissoye district to the east and south and the Pont Kennedy district to the west . To the north of Gawèye is an agricultural area on the Niger River . The district hospital Gaweye is administratively own quartier . Gawèye extends over an area of ​​about 44.5 hectares including the hospital grounds . The district lies on an alluvial floor that allows infiltration. The groundwater is at risk of being polluted.

The standard scheme for street names in Gawèye is Rue KI 1 , where the French Rue for street is followed by KI for Kirkissoye and finally a number. This goes back to a project to name streets in Niamey in 2002, in which the city was divided into 44 zones, each with its own letter abbreviations. These zones mostly do not coincide with the administrative boundaries of the eponymous districts. The rue KI 1 scheme is not only used in Kirkissoye itself, but also in Gawèye, among others.

history

Hotel Gawèye at the original location of the district (2005)

Gawèye was originally not on the right, but on the left bank of the Niger River in the area of ​​the later Kombo district on the Gounti Yéna dry valley . Gawèye Village was founded in the 19th century by Songhai and Kurtey from Gao . The place name comes from the Songhai language . There are two possible derivations: either from Gao or from the word gaw , which means "hunter". In the 1930s, the settlement was, along with Kalley , Koira Tagui , Maourey and Zongo, one of the five districts that made up Niamey, which was founded on the left bank of the river at the beginning of the 20th century.

Gawèye was moved to its current location in 1979 in the urban expansion area on the right side of the river, but grew less rapidly than other districts of Niamey in the following years. The reason for the relocation was that the state-owned international Hotel Gawèye , the conference building Palais des Congrès and the ONAREM building were built at the old location in the city center . In the 1980s, Gawèye and the neighboring district of Pont Kennedy were temporarily merged into one district.

population

At the 2012 census, Gawèye had 6956 inhabitants who lived in 1200 households. At the 2001 census, the population was 7,166 in 1,095 households, and at the 1988 census, the population was 4,273 in 756 households.

Infrastructure

There are several primary schools in Gawèye. The secondary school Collège d'enseignement général de Gawèye (CEG Gawèye) has existed since 1992.

literature

  • Jean-Pierre Tresignie: Les mutations d'un quartier exproprié africain: le cas de Gawèye à Niamey . Mémoire. Université de Liège, Liège 1987.

Web links

Commons : Gawèye (Niamey)  - 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. 718 , accessed on 7 August 2015 (French).
  2. ^ The Study on Sanitation Improvement for the Niamey City in Republic of Niger. Appendix F: Existing Urban Conditions. (PDF) Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), August 2000, pp. F-1 and F-4 , accessed on April 19, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Hamadou Issaka, Dominique Badariotti: Les inondations à Niamey, enjeux autour d'un phenomène complexe . In: Cahiers d'Outre-Mer . No. 263 , September 2013, p. 384 ( journals.openedition.org [accessed April 21, 2019]).
  4. ↑ Catherine Farvacque-Vitkovic, Lucien Godin, Hugues Leroux, Florence Verdet, Roberto Chavez: Street Addressing and the Management of Cities . World Bank, Washington, DC 2005, ISBN 0-8213-5815-4 , pp. 85 and 89 .
  5. ^ A b Apollinaire Tini: La gestion des déchets solid ménagers à Niamey au Niger: essai pour une stratégie de gestion durable . Thèse de doctorat. Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon, Lyon 2003, p. 77 ( theses.insa-lyon.fr [PDF; accessed May 1, 2019]).
  6. ↑ Abdourahmane Idrissa, Samuel Decalo: Historical Dictionary of Niger . 4th edition. Scarecrow, Plymouth 2012, ISBN 0-7864-0495-7 , pp. 334-335 .
  7. ↑ Kokou Henri Motcho: Niamey, Garin captan Salma ou l'histoire du peuplement de la ville de Niamey . In: Jérôme Aloko-N'Guessan, Amadou Diallo, Kokou Henri Motcho (eds.): Villes et organization de l'espace en Afrique . Karthala, Paris 2010, ISBN 978-2-8111-0339-2 , pp. 28 .
  8. ↑ Kokou Henri Motcho: Niamey, Garin captan Salma ou l'histoire du peuplement de la ville de Niamey . In: Jérôme Aloko-N'Guessan, Amadou Diallo, Kokou Henri Motcho (eds.): Villes et organization de l'espace en Afrique . Karthala, Paris 2010, ISBN 978-2-8111-0339-2 , pp. 31 .
  9. ↑ Kokou Henri Motcho: Niamey, Garin captan Salma ou l'histoire du peuplement de la ville de Niamey . In: Jérôme Aloko-N'Guessan, Amadou Diallo, Kokou Henri Motcho (eds.): Villes et organization de l'espace en Afrique . Karthala, Paris 2010, ISBN 978-2-8111-0339-2 , pp. 30 .
  10. ^ 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
  11. ↑ 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. 226 ( web.archive.org [PDF; accessed May 4, 2019]).
  12. ↑ Issa Mamane Manirou: Etude diagnostique des conditions d'accès à l'eau, l'hygiène et l'assainissement dans les écoles publiques de l'arrondissement primaires communal V de la ville de Niamey, Niger . Mémoire de fin d'étude. Annexes. 2iE Institut International de l'Eau et de l'Environnement, Ouagadougou 2016, p. II ( documentation.2ie-edu.org [PDF; accessed June 3, 2019]).
  13. ↑ Rapport de l'étude preparatoire pour le projet de construction des établissements d'enseignement secondaire au Niger. (PDF) Chapitre 2. Agence japonaise de coopération internationale (JICA), April 2013, p. 15 , accessed on June 6, 2019 (French).