Gouchi
| Gouchi rural community | |||
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| Coordinates | 13 ° 31 ' N , 9 ° 33' E | ||
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| Country | Niger | ||
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| department | Dungass | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | NE-7 | ||
| Residents | 71,612 (2012) | ||
Gouchi (also: Gouchy ; old English spelling: Gushi ) is a rural community in the Dungass department in Niger .
geography
Gouchi is located in the northeast of the department and is at the transition from the large Sudan to the Sahel zone . The neighboring communities are Guidimouni in the north, Guidiguir and Bouné in the east, Dungass and Malawa in the south and Wacha in the west. There are 62 villages, 116 hamlets and two camps in the municipality. The main town of the rural community is the village of Gouchi. The largest village in the municipality by population is Jambirdji .
history
In the 19th century, Gouchi and the villages of Matarawa and Yakaouda, which are now part of Gouchi's municipal area, were three Kanuri settlements without a common political administration, which was initially able to maintain its independence from the larger ruled areas in the surrounding area. They entered into an alliance with the Sossébaki state of Wacha . When the Sultan attacked by Zinder Wacha, Gouchi sided with the Sultan. After a series of minor wars, Gouchi was attached to the Zinder Sultanate at the end of the 19th century. At the beginning of the 20th century, the French colonial administration established a canton in Gouchi. The market in the Gouchi village of Yakaouda was one of the small markets in the region that was approved by the French administration at the time. In 2002, as part of a nationwide administrative reform, the Gouchi canton became the Gouchi rural community. Since 2011, the rural community no longer belongs to the Magaria department , but to the newly founded Dungass department.
population
At the 2012 census, Gouchi had 71,612 residents. At the 2001 census, the population was 46,458. In Gouchi, next to Kanuri, live members of the Fulbe subgroup Daourawa, which mainly practices agropastoralism , as well as the Fulbe subgroups Bornanko'en, Dabanko'en and Katchinanko'en, which specialize in remote grazing.
literature
- N. Abdou: Dégradation des bas-fonds et perspective de mise en valeur: cas de Wi-Wi dans le canton de Gouchi (Magaria, Zinder) . Mémoire de maîtrise. Université Abdou Moumouni, Niamey 1993.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Répertoire National des Localités (ReNaLoc). (RAR) Institut National de la Statistique de la République du Niger, July 2014, pp. 570–573 , accessed on August 7, 2015 (French).
- ↑ Loi n ° 2002-014 du 11 JUIN 2002 portant création des communes et fixant le nom de leurs chefs-lieux . Republic of Niger.
- ↑ Edmond Séré de Rivières: Histoire du Niger . Berger-Levrault, Paris 1965, p. 132.
- ↑ Edmond Séré de Rivières: Histoire du Niger . Berger-Levrault, Paris 1965, p. 251.
- ↑ Hassane Gandah Nabi: Commerçants et entrepreneurs du Niger (1922-2006) . L'Harmattan, Paris 2013, ISBN 978-2-336-29136-9 , pp. 37 .
- ↑ 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]).
- ^ Institut Nationale de la Statistique du Niger (ed.): Annuaire statistique des cinquante ans d'indépendance du Niger . Niamey 2010, stat-niger.org (PDF; 3.1 MB) p. 57.
- ↑ 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, iram-fr.org ( Memento of the original from July 13, 2010 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; 11.3 MB) p. 33.
