Guidan Roumdji

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Guidan Roumdji Township
Guidan Roumdji Municipality (Niger)
Guidan Roumdji Township
Guidan Roumdji Township
Coordinates 13 ° 40 ′  N , 6 ° 42 ′  E Coordinates: 13 ° 40 ′  N , 6 ° 42 ′  E
Basic data
Country Niger

region

Maradi
department Guidan Roumdji
ISO 3166-2 NE-4
Residents 95,791 (2012)

Guidan Roumdji (also: Guidan Roumji ) is a municipality and the capital of the Guidan Roumdji department in Niger .

geography

Guidan Roumdji is located at the transition from the Sudan to the Sahel zone and borders the neighboring state of Nigeria in the southwest . There is a border crossing at the village of Souloulou . The neighboring communities in Niger are Bangui in the northwest, Dan-Goulbi in the north, Chadakori in the northeast and Guidan Sori in the southeast. The urban area is divided into eight districts, 57 administrative villages, 81 traditional villages, twelve hamlets and three camps. The districts are called Angoual Roumdji, Limantchi, Malamey, Massalatchi, Nakoiri I, Nakori, Nakori II and Quartier Administratif.

The Forêt classée de Guidan Roumdji is a 2100 hectare protected forest area in the municipality of Guidan Roumdji. It was placed under protection in 1952.

history

The name Guidan Roumdji means "butcher's house". Originally it was a small village of butchers from Nigeria who specialized in the secret slaughter of stolen cattle. The city is an old market town. The first market was created in pre-colonial times.

In 1972 Guidan Roumdji became the capital of the newly created arrondissement Guidan Roumdji, later the department of the same name. In 2002 the urban area was expanded to include the surrounding canton of Guidan Roumdji.

population

At the 1977 census, Guidan Roumdji had 3,006 inhabitants, at the 1988 census 7,020 people and at the 2001 census 10,269 people. At the 2012 census, after the urban area expanded, the population was 95,791. The population consists of Hausa , Fulbe and Tuareg . The central common language is Hausa .

Economy and Infrastructure

The economic activities in Guidan Roumdji extend to agriculture, livestock, trade, handicrafts and fish farming. Millet, sorghum , beans, sesame and sorrel are grown as well as - in the river bed of a wadi and on its banks - tomatoes, pumpkins, honeydew melons, green beans, watermelons and corn. The animal husbandry practiced by all ethnic groups affects cattle, sheep, goats and camels. Fish farming and traditional beekeeping are important sources of income.

There is a cattle market in Guidan Roumdji. The market day is Sunday. The trade is diverse, with the priority goods being agricultural products, products of the manufacturing sector, clothing and spices. The handicraft businesses in the city include blacksmiths, weaving shops and pottery shops. Guidan Roumdji is the seat of a Tribunal d'Instance, one of the 30 civil courts nationwide , which are below the ten civil courts of the first instance (Tribunal de Grande Instance). The city is on National Road 1 , which is part of the international Dakar-N'Djamena Highway .

literature

  • Aghali Abdoulkader: Le "bien" sécurité dans trois communes (Guidan Roumdji, Balleyara et Say). Des logiques de l'Etat aux logiques locales, ou la diversité d'acteurs . In collaboration with Chaibou Adamou (=  Etudes et Travaux du LASDEL . No. 105 ). LASDEL, Niamey / Parakou February 2013 ( lasdel.net [PDF]).
  • Oumarou Bachir Garba, Ousmane Laminou Manzo, Boubé Morou, Saley Karim, Ali Mahamane: État de la végétation ligneuse au Sahel: Cas de Guidan Roumdji au sahel central du Niger . In: Journal of Animal & Plant Sciences . Vol. 31, No. 3 , 2017, ISSN  2071-7024 , p. 5033-5049 ( m.elewa.org [PDF]).
  • Aïssa Diarra: La prize en charge de l'accouchement dans trois communes au Niger: Say, Balleyara et Guidan Roumji (=  Etudes et Travaux du LASDEL . No. 101 ). LASDEL, Niamey / Parakou April 2012 ( lasdel.net [PDF]).
  • Younoussi Issa: La crise alimentaire à Guidan Roumji, 2004–2005 (=  Etudes et Travaux du LASDEL . No. 65 ). LASDEL, Niamey / Parakou December 2006 ( lasdel.net [PDF]).
  • Younoussi Issa: Le service public de l'eau et de l'assainissement à Say, Guidan Roumdji et Balleyara (=  Etudes et Travaux du LASDEL . No. 93 ). LASDEL, Niamey / Parakou October 2011 ( lasdel.net [PDF]).
  • Younoussi Issa: Les élections locales de 2009 à Guidan Roumdji . In: Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan (ed.): Élections au village. Une ethnographie de la culture électorale au Niger . Karthala, Paris 2015, ISBN 978-2-8111-1377-3 , pp. 287-312 .
  • Amadou Oumarou: Le service public de marché à Balleyara, Guidan Roumdji et Say . In collaboration with Amadou Boubacar (=  Etudes et Travaux du LASDEL . No. 90 ). LASDEL, Niamey / Parakou October 2011 ( lasdel.net [PDF]).
  • Laminou M. Ousmane, Boubé Morou, Saley Karim, Oumarou Bachir Garba, Ali Mahamane: Usages Socioeconomiques Des Espèces Ligneuses Au Sahel: Cas De Guidan Roumdji Au Niger . In: European Scientific Journal . Vol. 13, No. September 26 , 2017, ISSN  1857-7881 , p. 355–373 , doi : 10.19044 / esj.2017.v13n26p355 ( eujournal.org [PDF]).

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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stat-niger.org
  2. ^ Données available for chaque forêt classée . ( Memento of July 29, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Website of the Direction de l'Environnement, Ministère de l'Hydraulique, de l'Environnement et de la Lutte Contre la Désertification, accessed on February 25, 2012.
  3. ↑ Aghali Abdoulkader: Le "bien" sécurité dans trois communes (guidan roumdji department, Balleyara et Say). Des logiques de l'Etat aux logiques locales, ou la diversité d'acteurs . In collaboration with Chaibou Adamou (=  Etudes et Travaux du LASDEL . No. 105 ). LASDEL, Niamey / Parakou February 2013, p. 20 ( lasdel.net [PDF; accessed April 26, 2018]).
  4. ↑ Amadou Oumarou: Le service public de marché à Balleyara, Guidan Roumdji et Say . In collaboration with Amadou Boubacar (=  Etudes et Travaux du LASDEL . No. 90 ). LASDEL, Niamey / Parakou October 2011, p. 8 ( lasdel.net [PDF; accessed April 26, 2018]).
  5. ^ Frédéric Giraut: Retour du refoulé et effet chef-lieu. Analysis d'une refonte politico-administrative virtual au Niger . PRODIG, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-901560-38-5 , pp. 35 ( archives-ouvertes.fr [PDF; accessed August 17, 2013]).
  6. ↑ bevoelkerungsstatistik.de: ( page no longer available , search in web archives: Guidan Roumdji ), accessed on March 26, 2012.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / bevoelkerungsstatistik.de
  7. ↑ 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).
  8. ↑ Lucie Alexandre, Guy Bessette (ed.): L'appui au développement communautaire. Une experience of communication in Africa de l'Ouest . Center de recherches pour le développement international, Ottawa 2000, ISBN 0-88936-919-4 , p. 89.
  9. ^ 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).
  10. ^ Younoussi Issa: Le comité de distribution des vivres à Guidan Roumdji . In: Afrique contemporaine . 2008/1, no. 225 ( online version ), pp. 104-105.
  11. ↑ Bachir Talfi: Note sur l'organization judiciaire . Nigerien Ministry of Justice website, accessed September 24, 2012.