Guidan Amoumoune

Guidan Amoumoune rural community
Guidan Amoumoune rural community
Coordinates	14 ° 9 ′  N , 7 ° 19 ′  E Coordinates: 14 ° 9 ′  N , 7 ° 19 ′  E
Basic data
Country	Niger
region	Maradi
department	Mayahi
Residents	88,199 (2012)

Guidan amoumoune is a rural municipality in the department of Mayahi in Niger .

geography

Guidan Amoumoune is located in the Sahel . The neighboring communities are Bader Goula in the northwest, Tagriss in the northeast, Tchaké in the east, Attantané in the south and Kornaka in the west. The municipality is divided into 70 administrative villages, 147 hamlets and five camps. The main town of the rural community is the administrative village of Guidan Amoumoune.

history

Before the arrival of the French at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, Guidan Amoumoune was part of the independent state of Gobir . At the beginning of the 20th century, the French administration set up a canton with its seat in Almoktar, which is now an administrative village in the municipality of Guidan Amoumoune. The canton Almoktar was dissolved in 1924 and joined to the canton Mayahi. In 2002, as part of a nationwide administrative reform, the area of ​​the canton Mayahi was divided into the municipalities of Guidan Amoumoune, Mayahi , Attantané and Sarkin Haoussa .

population

At the 2001 census, Guidan Amoumoune had 60,461 residents. At the 2012 census, the population was 88,199.

Economy and Infrastructure

The main economic activities in the rural community are agriculture, ranching, and trade. The UNICEF was in guidan amoumoune several granaries build what food security improved, and invested in building and equipping schools.

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. ↑ Ogunsola John Igue, Kengne Fodouop, Jérôme Aloko-N'Guessan (ed.): Maîtrise de l'espace et développement en Afrique. Budget of the lieux . Karthala, Paris 2010, ISBN 978-2-8111-0264-7 , p. 239.
4. ↑ Edmond Séré de Rivières: Histoire du Niger . Berger-Levrault, Paris 1965, p. 248.
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. 55.
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 21, 2014 (French). 
7. ↑ Zeinabou Gaoh: guidan amoumoune: commune de convergence des actions de l'UNICEF . In: Sahel Dimanche . No. 1307 , September 26, 2008, p. 11 ( nigerdiaspora.info [PDF; accessed November 25, 2013]). Guidan Amoumoune: commune de convergence des actions de l'UNICEF ( Memento of the original of December 2, 2013 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.