Guidimouni

Guidimouni rural community
Guidimouni rural community
Coordinates	13 ° 42 '  N , 9 ° 31'  E Coordinates: 13 ° 42 '  N , 9 ° 31'  E
Basic data
Country	Niger
region	cinder
department	Damagaram Takaya
Residents	52,849 (2010)

Guidimouni is a rural community in Damagaram Takaya department in Niger .

geography

Guidimouni is located in the Sahel region . The neighboring communities are Mazamni in the north, Damagaram Takaya in the northeast, Guidiguir in the southeast, Gouchi in the south, Hamdara in the southwest and Zermou in the northwest. The municipality is divided into 43 administrative villages, 86 traditional villages, 61 hamlets, four camps and two water points. The main town of the rural community is the village of Guidimouni, located on a small lake.

Lake Mare de Lassouri lies on the border with the municipality of Damagaram Takaya , and its 34,000 hectare wetland has been protected under the Ramsar Convention since 2005 .

history

According to tradition, the village was settled by Kanuri from Bornu in the 10th century . The French colonial administration established a canton in Guidimouni at the beginning of the 20th century and allowed a small market to be held. In 1932 the area of ​​the dissolved Mazamni canton was attached to the canton. In 2002, as part of a nationwide administrative reform, the canton of Guidimouni became the rural communities of Goudimouni and Mazamni. Since 2011, both rural communities no longer belong to the Mirriah department , but to the newly founded Damagaram Takaya department.

population

At the 2001 census, Guidimouni had 38,923 inhabitants. For the year 2010, 52,849 inhabitants were calculated. Members of the Kanuri subgroup Dagra, who mainly practice agropastoralism , live in Guidimouni .

Economy and Infrastructure

The rural community is on National Road 1 . In 2012, the renovation of the 870-kilometer stretch of road to the regional capital of Zinder began. At the Guidimouni market, sugar cane in particular is traded, which is sold as far as the capital Niamey .

Personalities

• Hadjia Délou (1938–2020), actress and director, born in the village of Rigal Sarkin Foulani

literature

• Jan Patrick Heiß: On the complexity of farm field work in Africa. A case study in a Manga village (Niger) . Lit, Münster 2003, ISBN 978-3-8258-6822-2 .

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. ↑ Loi n ° 2002-014 du 11 JUIN 2002 portant création des communes et fixant le nom de leurs chefs-lieux . Republic of Niger.
3. ↑ La Mare de Lassouri. In: Ramsar Sites Information Service. April 13, 2018, accessed March 13, 2019 . 
4. ^ ^{A b} Edmond Séré de Rivières: Histoire du Niger . Berger-Levrault, Paris 1965, p. 250.
5. ↑ Hassane Gandah Nabi: Commerçants et entrepreneurs du Niger (1922-2006) . L'Harmattan, Paris 2013, ISBN 978-2-336-29136-9 , pp. 37 .
6. ↑ Une nouvelle loi sur le redécoupage administratif . In: L'Arbre à Palabres . No. 13 , August 11, 2011, p. 2 ( nigerdiaspora.net [PDF; accessed on January 28, 2014]).
7. ^ Institut Nationale de la Statistique du Niger (ed.): Annuaire statistique des cinquante ans d'indépendance du Niger . Niamey 2010, p. 57. stat-niger.org (PDF; 3.1 MB)
8. ↑ Ministère de l'élevage et des industries animales / République du Niger (ed.): La mobilité pastorale dans la Région de Zinder. Stratégies et dynamisme des sociétés pastorales . Niamey 2009 ( iram-fr.org ( Memento of the original from July 13, 2010 in the Internet Archive ; PDF; 11.3 MB) 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 remove then this note. ) p. 31. 
9. ↑ Niger: Début des travaux de réhabilitation d'un tronçon routier de 870 km  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Afriquinfos website, published May 17, 2012, accessed May 17, 2012.  
10. ↑ Livelihoods Zoning “Plus” Activity In Niger ( Memento from September 28, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 2.5 MB). P. 30, website of the Famine Early Warning Systems Network, published August 2011, accessed January 19, 2012.