Guidan Sori
| Guidan Sori rural parish | |||
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| Coordinates | 13 ° 32 ' N , 6 ° 53' E | ||
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| Country | Niger | ||
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| department | Guidan Roumdji | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | NE-4 | ||
| Residents | 93,771 (2012) | ||
Guidan Sori is a rural municipality in the department guidan roumdji department in Niger .
geography
Guidan Sori is located in the greater Sudan landscape and borders the neighboring state of Nigeria in the southwest . The neighboring communities in Niger are Guidan Roumdji in the north, Chadakori in the northeast and Tibiri in the south. The municipality is divided into 63 administrative villages, three traditional villages, 98 hamlets and six camps. The main town of the rural community is the administrative village of Guidan Sori.
history
In 1914, in the village of Balarabé, which belongs to Guidan Sori, one of the first customs posts was set up between the then French Niger and the then British Nigeria. The poorly trained and poorly controlled customs officers, who were recruited from the ranks of the tirailleurs sénégalais , were supposed to collect taxes on cross-border trade on behalf of William Ponty , the governor-general of French West Africa .
The village of Toda, which belongs to Guidan Sori, gave its name to the "Toda Affaire" ( affaire Toda ) in 1991. This describes a massacre of Hausa farmers from several villages who allied against a camp of Fulbe cattle herders due to land use conflicts killed more than a hundred people there after setting fire to their homes.
The rural community of Guidan Sori emerged from the canton of Guidan Sori in 2002 as part of a state-wide administrative reform.
population
At the 2001 census, Guidan Sori had 66,969 inhabitants. At the 2012 census, the population was 93,771. The administrative village of Fissataou in the municipality of Guidan Sori is a traditional center of the Azna .
Economy and Infrastructure
The east of the municipality is in an area where rain-fed agriculture is predominant. The west belongs to the zone of irrigated farming .
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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.
- ^ Republic of Niger: Loi n ° 2002-014 du 11 JUIN 2002 portant création des communes et fixant le nom de leurs chefs-lieux .
- ↑ Hassane Gandah Nabi: Commerçants et entrepreneurs du Niger (1922-2006) . L'Harmattan, Paris 2013, ISBN 978-2-336-29136-9 , pp. 43 .
- ↑ Aghali Aboulkader: 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. (PDF; 966 kB) (No longer available online.) LASDEL, February 2013, p. 10 , archived from the original on May 2, 2014 ; Retrieved September 24, 2013 (French). 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.
- ^ 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. 54.
- ↑ 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).
- ↑ Edmond Séré de Rivières: Histoire du Niger . Berger-Levrault, Paris 1965, p. 50.
- ^ 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.
