Gounfara

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Location of Gounfara in Niger

Gounfara is a village in the Doguérawa rural community in Niger .

The village, led by a traditional local chief ( chef traditionnel ), is located in the Maggia valley , about 25 kilometers northeast of Doguérawa, the capital of the rural community of the same name, which belongs to the Malbaza department in the Tahoua region. The larger villages in the vicinity of Gounfara include Kawara, around ten kilometers away, in the southwest and Tama, around twelve kilometers away, in the northeast.

At the 2012 census, Gounfara had 6404 inhabitants who lived in 1146 households. At the 2001 census, the population was 4,875 in 822 households, and at the 1988 census, the population was 3,779 in 592 households.

In Gounfara onions and cowpeas grown. There is a Center de Santé Intégré (CSI), a health center in the village that was responsible for the care of almost 44,000 people in 2015. With the establishment of a health center in the neighboring village of Kawara in the following year, the responsibility of the CSI in Gounfara was reduced to around 21,000 people. The region was repeated by cholera - epidemic affected. In 2012, Gounfara CSI treated 73 cholera patients, four of whom died of the disease. After a meningitis epidemic in 2015 with 358 deaths nationwide, thousands of people were vaccinated against the disease in the following year, with Gounfara being one of the centers of action of the Ministry of Health with over 13,000 vaccinations, along with Koutoukalé , Malbaza and Niamey .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Répertoire National des localites (ReNaLoc). (RAR) Institut National de la Statistique de la République du Niger, July 2014, p. 373 , accessed on 7 August 2015 (French).
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  3. ↑ 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. 292 ( ceped.org [PDF; accessed January 31, 2018]). www.ceped.org ( Memento of the original dated January 31, 2018 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ceped.org
  4. ^ Tahoua Region Water Harnessing Project. Project Completion Report. (PDF) Annex 4. African Development Fund, October 2008, p. 2 , accessed on October 26, 2018 (English).
  5. ↑ Paul Cottavoz: WASH et choléra - stratégie bouclier dans les aires de santé les plus affectées des régions sanitaires de Tillabéri, Tahoua et Maradi. Rapport d'évaluation. (PDF) UNICEF Niger, May 2016, p. 65 , accessed on October 26, 2018 (French).
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Coordinates: 14 ° 10 '  N , 5 ° 43'  E