Goudoumaria

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Rural municipality of Goudoumaria
Rural community Goudoumaria (Niger)
Rural municipality of Goudoumaria
Rural municipality of Goudoumaria
Coordinates 13 ° 43 '  N , 11 ° 11'  E Coordinates: 13 ° 43 '  N , 11 ° 11'  E
Basic data
Country Niger

region

Diffa
department Goudoumaria
ISO 3166-2 NE-2
Residents 100,559 (2012)

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

geography

Goudoumaria is located in the Manga landscape in the Sahel region and borders the neighboring state of Nigeria in the south . The neighboring communities in Niger are N'Guelbély in the northeast, Maïné-Soroa in the east, Bouné in the southwest, Gouré in the west and Kellé in the northwest. The municipality is divided into 193 administrative villages, 146 traditional villages, 54 hamlets, 167 camps and 33 water points. The main town of the rural municipality is the administrative village of Goudoumaria. The largest village in the municipality by population before the main town is Boutti . In the dune landscape of Goudoumaria there are several oases that benefit from the low water table.

history

Goudoumaria was founded in the first half of the 19th century in a previously uninhabited area by residents of the village of Kaoura, which was near Gouré and has since disappeared. Along with Chétimari , Gouré and Maïné-Soroa, Goudoumaria is one of the most important places in Mangari, where the traditional rule going back to the Bornu empire could be preserved.

In 1964, an administrative reform divided Niger into seven departments, the predecessors of the later regions, and 32 arrondissements, the predecessors of the later departments. Goudoumaria was later added to the newly created Arrondissement Gouré (later the Department of Gouré ), but received the status of an administrative post ( poste administratif ) in the area of ​​the Arrondissement. Later Goudoumaria fell to the neighboring department of Maïné-Soroa. In the course of a nationwide administrative reform in 2002, the canton of Goudoumaria became the rural community of Goudoumaria. The administrative post of Goudoumaria was removed from the Maïné-Soroa department in 2011 and elevated to the Goudoumaria department.

The regional capital Diffa was attacked in February 2015 by the jihadist terrorist group Boko Haram from Nigeria . As early as May 2013, around 150,000 people from neighboring Nigeria had fled to Diffa because of the activities of Boko Haram. Now Goudoumaria was one of the places that took in refugees from Diffa.

population

At the 2001 census, Goudoumaria had 72,784 inhabitants. At the 2012 census, the population was 100,559. This makes Goudoumaria the most populous municipality in the Diffa region .

Economy and Infrastructure

Goudoumaria is on National Road 1 . Soda and salt are extracted in the municipality. At the market in the main town, baking soda, dates and cattle are traded, which are sold to Diffa and Nigeria. There is another cattle market in the village of Boutti on Sundays. In the north of the community, agropastoralism is the predominant form of economy, in the south, rain-fed farming .

Personalities

literature

  • I. Boukary: Enjeux fonciers dans le système oisien de l'arrondissement de Maïné Soroa: cas du terroir de Kojiméri . Mémoire de maîtrise. Université Abdou Moumouni de Niamey, Niamey 2002.
  • Maman Chégou: Situation et avenir des systèmes de production de la zone des cuvettes de Mainé-Soroa. Exemple du terroir de Kojimeri . Faculté d'Agronomie, Université de Niamey, Niamey 1990.
  • Issoufou Dogo: Les différents systèmes de production dans la zone des cuvettes de Keboulwa . Faculté d'Agronomie, Université de Niamey, Niamey 1991.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Republic of Niger: Loi n ° 2002-014 du 11 JUIN 2002 portant création des communes et fixant le nom de leurs chefs-lieux .
  2. ↑ Répertoire National des localites (ReNaLoc). (RAR) Institut National de la Statistique de la République du Niger, July 2014, p. 43 , accessed on 7 August 2015 (French).
  3. ^ A b Jean-Paul Labourdette, Dominique Auzias: Niger 2009 . Nouvelle édition de l'Université, Paris 2009, ISBN 2-7469-1640-1 , pp. 154 .
  4. ↑ Edmond Séré de Rivières: Histoire du Niger . Berger-Levrault, Paris 1965, p. 119.
  5. ↑ Michael H. Horowitz: Barbers and bearers: ecology and ethnicity in an islamic society . In: Africa: Journal of the International African Institute. Vol. 44, No. 4 . Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh 1974, p. 371 f.
  6. ↑ Edmond Séré de Rivières: Histoire du Niger . Berger-Levrault, Paris 1965, p. 275.
  7. ↑ 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]).
  8. ↑ Niger: Timeline regarding the Humanitarian Situation in Diffa (as of 15 August 2015). (PDF) OCHA , August 5, 2015, accessed on May 21, 2018 (English).
  9. ^ 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. 53.
  10. ↑ 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 18, 2014 (French).
  11. ↑ Livelihoods Zoning “Plus” Activity In Niger ( Memento from September 28, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 2.5 MB). 42, Famine Early Warning Systems Network website, published August 2011, accessed January 19, 2012.
  12. ^ Mahamadou Saley, Yatta Paul Maurice Mohamed: Projet Régional d'Appui au Pastoralisme au Sahel (PRAPS). Etude diagnostique des Systèmes d'Information sur les marchés à bétail du Burkina Faso, du Mali, de la Mauritanie, du Niger, du Sénégal et du Tchad. Définitif report. (PDF) CILSS , November 2016, accessed on May 2, 2018 (French).
  13. ^ 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.savethechildren.org.uk