Gueskérou

Gueskérou rural municipality
Gueskérou rural municipality
Coordinates	13 ° 29 ′  N , 12 ° 51 ′  E Coordinates: 13 ° 29 ′  N , 12 ° 51 ′  E
Basic data
Country	Niger
region	Diffa
department	Diffa
Residents	37,836 (2012)

Gueskérou is a rural municipality in the Diffa department in Niger .

geography

Gueskérou is located in the south of the department in the Manga landscape in the Sahel . The town center is located directly on the Komadougou Yobé River , which forms the state border with Nigeria here. Immediately southwest of Gueskérou is the regional capital Diffa . The other neighboring communities in Niger are Kabléwa in the north, Toumour in the east, Bosso in the southeast and Chétimari in the northwest. Due to its location on the river, several gardens extend around the center of the village, in an otherwise mostly dry municipality area. In the north lies the Kadzell clay plain . Gueskérou consists of 61 traditional villages, 59 administrative villages, two camps and 22 water points. The main town of the rural municipality is Gueskérou, consisting of the administrative villages Gueskérou I and Gueskérou II.

history

In 1933, Gueskérou became the capital of the newly created canton of Komadougou. During the administrative reform of 2002, all cantons of Niger were dissolved and Gueskérou has since then had the status of a rural community ( French : commune rurale ). At least 38 civilians were killed in an attack by the Islamist group Boko Haram from Nigeria on the villages of Lamana and N'Goumao in June 2015.

population

At the 2001 census, Gueskérou had 28,948 inhabitants. At the 2012 census, the population was 37,836.

Economy and Infrastructure

In the south on Komadougou Yobé, irrigation farming is practiced. In the north begins the zone of agropastoralism . In between, rain-fed agriculture predominates. There is a cattle market in the village of Kindjandi. The market day is Friday. National road 1 runs through the municipality .

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. 253.
4. ↑ Islamist group Boko Haram kills 38 civilians. In: derStandard.at . June 19, 2015, accessed June 21, 2015 . 
5. ^ 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.
6. ↑ 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). 
7. ^ 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. 
8. ^ 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).