Gazaoua

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Rural Municipality of Gazaoua
Rural Municipality of Gazaoua (Niger)
Rural Municipality of Gazaoua
Rural Municipality of Gazaoua
Coordinates 13 ° 32 '  N , 7 ° 55'  E Coordinates: 13 ° 32 '  N , 7 ° 55'  E
Basic data
Country Niger

region

Maradi
department Gazaoua
ISO 3166-2 NE-4
Residents 108,606 (2012)

Gazaoua is a rural municipality and the capital of the Gazaoua department of the same name in Niger .

geography

Gazaoua is located in the greater Sudan landscape and borders the neighboring state of Nigeria in the south . The neighboring communities in Niger are Koona and Maïjirgui in the north, Hawandawaki and Korgom in the east and Aguié and Gangara in the west. The municipality is divided into 55 administrative villages, one traditional village, 59 hamlets and 36 camps. The main town of the rural community is the administrative village of Gazaoua.

history

Gazaoua ("Gasaua") in Stieler's Hand Atlas (1891)

Gazaoua and Maradi were the targets of refugees from Katsina after the Fulbe defeated Katsina in 1812. While Maradi initially had to submit to the supremacy of the Fulbe, the Katsina refugees in Gazaoua were able to repel all attacks by the Fulbe right from the start. In the 1850s, the German Africa explorer Heinrich Barth visited the place.

The French research and military expedition, Mission Foureau-Lamy , stayed in Gazaoua from November 24-29, 1899. The place fell permanently to France at the beginning of the 20th century. The Gazaoua market was one of the small markets in the region allowed by the French administration at the time.

Niger gained independence in 1960. In 1964 an administrative reform divided the state into 32 arrondissements, the forerunners of the later departments. Gazaoua was added to the newly created arrondissement Tessaoua (later the department of Tessaoua ) and received the status of an administrative post ( poste administratif ) in the area of ​​the arrondissement. Administrative posts were special territorial units one level below the arrondissements, which were regarded as a kind of preliminary stage for a later conversion into a separate arrondissement. In the case of Gazaoua, this was initially not implemented, the community remained with Tessaoua. Aguié, including Gazaoua, was later detached from Tessaoua as a department. Gazaoua belonged to the canton of Aguié at an administrative level below the departments. In 2002 Gazaoua was detached from the canton of Aguié as an independent rural municipality as part of a further administrative reform. In the flood disaster in West and Central Africa in 2010 , 1,881 residents of Gazaoua were classified as victims of the disaster. The administrative post of Gazaoua was finally removed from the department of Aguié in 2011 and raised to the department of Gazaoua.

population

At the 2001 census, Gazaoua had 80,107 inhabitants. At the 2012 census, the population was 108,606. Gazaoua is a traditional center of the Azna .

Economy and Infrastructure

The community lies at the transition from the zone of rain-fed farming in the north to the zone of irrigated farming in the south. National Road 1 runs through Gazaoua and connects the town with the regional capitals of Maradi and Zinder .

Personalities

literature

  • Maman Adamou: Analysis de la gestion du foncier dans le processus de la vulgarisation des ménages dans la zone d'Aguié, cas du village de Zabon Moussou . Faculté d'Agronomie, Université Abdou Moumouni de Niamey, Niamey 2004.
  • MH Ibrahim: Etude de faisabilité d'un marché autour du palmier doum (Hyphaene thebaica) et de ses sous-produits dans la grappe villageoise de El Gueza, dans l'arrondissement d'Aguié (Maradi) . Mémoire de fin de cycles Ingénieurs des Techniques Agricoles (ITA). Faculté d'Agronomie, Université Abdou Moumouni de Niamey, Niamey 2004.
  • Abdourahamane Mamane: Identification et caractérisation de quelques innovations paysannes dans la gestion et la valorisation des ressources naturelles dans le département d'Aguié. Cas des terroirs villageois de Dan Damou et Bougouzawa . Faculté d'Agronomie, Université Abdou Moumouni de Niamey, Niamey 2008.
  • Roumanatou Saky Souleymane: Etude des risques et stratégies paysannes de gestion de la fertilité des sols et des risques climatiques dans the region d'Aguié (Maradi). Cas du village de Zabon Mousso . Faculté d'Agronomie, Université Abdou Moumouni de Niamey, Niamey 2002.
  • Kanta Saley: Etude des pratiques et des stratégies paysannes en matière de gestion de la fertilité des sols et des risques climatiques dans l'arrondissement d'Aguié (Maradi). Cas des villages de Elgueza et de Zabon Moussou . Faculté d'Agronomie, Université Abdou Moumouni de Niamey, Niamey 2002.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Répertoire National des Communes (RENACOM) . ( Memento of the original from January 9, 2017 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. Website of the Institut National de la Statistique; Retrieved January 22, 2011. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stat-niger.org
  2. ↑ Loi n ° 2002-014 on 11 June 2002 portant création des communes et fixant le nom de leurs chefs-lieux . Republic of Niger.
  3. ↑ Edmond Séré de Rivières: Histoire du Niger . Berger-Levrault, Paris 1965, p. 147.
  4. ^ Jean-Paul Labourdette, Dominique Auzias: Niger 2009 . Nouvelle édition de l'Université, Paris 2009, ISBN 2-7469-1640-1 , pp. 33 .
  5. ↑ Fernand Foureau : Documents scientifiques de la mission saharienne. Mission Foureau-Lamy d'Alger au Congo par le Tchad . Atlas (cartographer: Verlet-Hanus). Masson, Paris 1905 ( jubilotheque.upmc.fr [accessed May 6, 2018]).
  6. ↑ Hassane Gandah Nabi: Commerçants et entrepreneurs du Niger (1922-2006) . L'Harmattan, Paris 2013, ISBN 978-2-336-29136-9 , pp. 38 .
  7. ↑ Edmond Séré de Rivières: Histoire du Niger . Berger-Levrault, Paris 1965, p. 275.
  8. ↑ Situation des besoins des populations victimes d'inondations (2010) ( Memento of the original from October 16, 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. . Website of the Center d'Information et de Communication, published on September 23, 2010, accessed on March 31, 2012.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.cic.ne
  9. ↑ Une nouvelle loi sur le redécoupage administratif . In: L'Arbre à Palabres . No. 13 , August 11, 2011, p. 2 ( nigerdiaspora.net [PDF; accessed on January 28, 2014]).
  10. ^ Annuaire statistique des cinquante ans d'indépendance du Niger . (PDF; 3.1 MB) Institut Nationale de la Statistique du Niger, Niamey 2010, p. 54.
  11. ↑ 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).
  12. ↑ Edmond Séré de Rivières: Histoire du Niger . Berger-Levrault, Paris 1965, p. 50.
  13. ^ Comprendre l'économie des ménages ruraux au Niger . Save the Children UK, London 2009, savethechildren.org.uk ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2013 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; 2.6 MB), p. 8. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.savethechildren.org.uk