Gouna

This article deals with the community in Niger, for the holiday town of the same name in Egypt see el-Guna .

Rural municipality of Gouna
Rural municipality of Gouna
Coordinates	13 ° 35 '  N , 9 ° 7'  E Coordinates: 13 ° 35 '  N , 9 ° 7'  E
Basic data
Country	Niger
region	cinder
department	Mirriah
Residents	53,902 (2010)
politics
mayor	Abdourahmane Sani (2014)

Gouna is a rural municipality in the department Mirriah Department in Niger .

geography

Gouna is in the Sahel region . The neighboring communities are Zinder and Kolléram in the northwest, Mirriah in the northeast, Wacha in the southeast and Dogo in the southwest. The municipality is divided into 34 administrative villages, 40 traditional villages, 20 hamlets and three camps. The main town of the rural community is the administrative village of Gouna.

history

Palace of the head of the canton in Gouna (2009)

The seat of rule Gouna was attached to his sultanate Zinder , which belonged to the kingdom of Bornu , by Sultan Sélimane dan Tintouma around 1820 . In 1899 France occupied the Sultanate of Zinder, which it remained until Niger gained independence in 1960. The Gouna market was one of the small markets in the region that was authorized by the French administration at the beginning of the 20th century. The rural community of Gouna emerged from the canton of Gouna in 2002 as part of a nationwide administrative reform. In the 2008 floods, 887 residents were classified as victims. 37 houses were destroyed and 37 fields were flooded.

population

At the 2001 census, Gouna had 39,700 inhabitants. For 2010, 53,902 inhabitants were calculated. Members of the Hausa subgroup Magouzawa, who practice arable farming, agropastoralism and remote grazing , and the Fulbe subgroup Bornanko'en, who specialize in remote grazing, live in Gouna .

literature

• Maman Laouali Brah Malam: Contribution des cultures maraichères au développement local de la commune rurale de Gouna, Région de Zinder (Niger). Cas des sites de Guirari . Mémoire. Faculté des Lettres et Sciences Humaines, Université Abdou Moumouni de Niamey, Niamey 2016.

Web links

Commons : Gouna  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Répertoire National des Communes (RENACOM) ( Memento of the original from January 9, 2017 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 notice. . Institut National de la Statistique website, accessed January 22, 2011. 
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. ↑ Edmond Séré de Rivières: Histoire du Niger . Berger-Levrault, Paris 1965, p. 135.
4. ↑ Hassane Gandah Nabi: Commerçants et entrepreneurs du Niger (1922-2006) . L'Harmattan, Paris 2013, ISBN 978-2-336-29136-9 , pp. 37 .
5. ↑ Situation des dégâts causés par les inondations (2008) ( Memento of the original of February 2, 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. . Center d'Information et de Communication website, published November 18, 2008, accessed March 31, 2012.  
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. 57.
7. ↑ 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 ( online version ( Memento of the original from July 13, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note .; PDF; 11, 3 MB), pp. 30 and 33.