Niamey Green Belt

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The Niamey Green Belt ( French : ceinture verte de Niamey ) is a green area in the city of Niamey in Niger .

Location and characteristics

The green belt runs through the arrondissements Niamey III and Niamey IV in the northeast of the city. The neighboring districts are, from north to south, Banizoumbou II , Banifandou II , Route Filingué and Poudrière in the west and Saga Fandou , Niamey 2000 , Sary Koubou , Talladjé Est and Talladjé in the east. In the south, the area is bordered by the Hippodrome racecourse . It lies in a plateau with a layer of sand that is less than 2.5 meters deep except for a section in the south.

The Niamey green belt goes back to the First Republic (1960–1974) under President Hamani Diori . The first plantings for the project took place in 1965. The original plan was for the green belt to enclose the city on the left bank of the Niger River in a semicircle over a length of 25 kilometers. Ultimately, less than half of this length was realized. The green belt covers an area of ​​about 1300 hectares. During the régime d'exception (1974–1987) under Head of State Seyni Kountché , 10 hectares of trees were planted in the area every year. The traditional owners of the land, who use it for arable farming and live mainly in the old districts of Gamkalley , Saga , Goudel and Maourey , had to cede land for the tree planting.

The green belt should protect Niamey from sandstorms and represent a natural boundary for the expansion of the city. Because the zone is not in good ecological condition and the residential areas now extend to areas on both sides of the green belt, these plans have become obsolete. From 1984 onwards, the first informal settlements appeared in the area as a result of immigration from the countryside . With the parceling of land in the neighboring Banizoumbou II district in the early 1990s, the residents of the informal settlements there moved to the green belt. This is how the largest straw hut settlement in Niamey came into being. Around the year 2005 it reached a length of 8 kilometers, a width of 250 to 700 meters and a population of almost 30,000, corresponding to about 4% of the total population of the city. The green belt is considered one of the most dangerous areas of Niamey in terms of robbery and theft.

literature

  • Mamoudou Amadou Tina: Etude de la contamination des sols par les Hydrocarbures Aromatiques Polyclyniques (HAP). Cas de la vallée de Gounti Yena et de la ceinture verte de la ville de Niamey (Niger) . Faculté d'Agronomie, Université Abdou Moumouni de Niamey, Niamey 2012.
  • Boureima Younoussi Yacouba: Impacts des activités anthropiques sur la diversité floristique de la ceinture verte de Niamey . Faculté d'Agronomie, Université Abdou Moumouni de Niamey, Niamey 2016.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hamadou Issaka, Dominique Badariotti: Les inondations à Niamey, enjeux autour d'un phenomène complexe . In: Cahiers d'Outre-Mer . No. 263 , September 2013, p. 383–384 ( journals.openedition.org [accessed April 21, 2019]).
  2. ↑ Ursula Meyer: Pratiques de gouvernance du foncier au lendemain de la democratisation: Le cas du foncier périphérique à Niamey, Niger. (PDF) Université de Lausanne, September 5, 2014, pp. 3–4 , accessed on April 25, 2019 (French).
  3. ↑ Hamadou Issaka: L'habitat informel dans les villes d'Afrique subsaharienne francophone à travers l'exemple de Niamey (Niger) . Thesis. Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour, Pau 2007, Chapitre 6.1.2 Les facteurs d'évolution de l'habitat informel ( memoireonline.com [accessed April 21, 2019]).
  4. ↑ Hamadou Issaka: L'habitat informel dans les villes d'Afrique subsaharienne francophone à travers l'exemple de Niamey (Niger) . Thesis. Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour, Pau 2007, Chapitre 5.2.3 Le domaine public ( memoireonline.com [accessed April 21, 2019]).
  5. ↑ Hamadou Issaka: L'habitat informel dans les villes d'Afrique subsaharienne francophone à travers l'exemple de Niamey (Niger) . Thesis. Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour, Pau 2007, Chapitre 7.4 Habitats informels, cités sensibles et ghettos: éléments de comparaison ( memoireonline.com [accessed April 21, 2019]).
  6. ↑ Abdouramane Seydou: Délinquance et governance urbaine à Niamey. Institut de Recherche en Sciences Humaines, Université Abdou Moumouni de Niamey, July 27, 2018, accessed on April 19, 2019 (French).

Coordinates: 13 ° 32 '0.2 "  N , 2 ° 9' 37.8"  E