Kalley Center

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Kalley Center neighborhood
Coordinates 13 ° 31 '  N , 2 ° 7'  E Coordinates: 13 ° 31 '  N , 2 ° 7'  E
Basic data
Country Niger

Capital District

Niamey
Arrondissement Niamey III
Residents 3689 (2012)

Kalley Center (also: Kaley Center , Kalley Center Amirou ) is a district ( French : quartier ) in the Arrondissement Niamey III of the city of Niamey in Niger .

geography

Rue du Maroc in Kalley Center (2018)

Kalley Center is located in downtown Niamey and is part of the Kalley district . The neighboring districts are Maourey in the northwest across the Rue de Kalley, Banizoumbou , Lacouroussou , Kalley Est and Kalley Sud in the northeast across the Boulevard de la Liberté and Terminus in the southwest across the Avenue de l'Afrique. To the southeast of Kalley Center are barracks of the Nigerien armed forces . The district is located in a plateau with a layer of sand less than 2.5 meters deep, which means that only limited infiltration is possible.

The standard scheme for street names in Kalley Center is Rue ST 1 , where the French rue for street is followed by the abbreviation ST for the stadium area of ​​the Stade municipal de Niamey located in the district and finally a number. This goes back to a project to name streets in Niamey in 2002, in which the city was divided into 44 zones, each with its own letter abbreviations.

history

View from southwest to Kalley Center, with the National Assembly Parliament building in the center (1990)

The district goes back to the French colonial era, which lasted until 1960.

population

At the 2012 census, Kalley Center had 3,689 residents in 461 households. At the 2001 census, the population was 4,337 in 670 households, and at the 1988 census, the population was 3,487 in 553 households.

Infrastructure

The secondary school Collège d'enseignement général 1 Garba Djibo (CEG 1) has existed since 1980. The Maison des Jeunes et de la Culture Djado Sékou is a youth and cultural center named after the traditional storyteller Djado Sékou .

Web links

Commons : Kalley Center  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Hamadou Issaka, Dominique Badariotti: Les inondations à Niamey, enjeux autour d'un phenomène complexe . In: Cahiers d'Outre-Mer . No. 263 , September 2013, p. 383–384 ( journals.openedition.org [accessed April 21, 2019]).
  2. Catherine Farvacque-Vitkovic, Lucien Godin, Hugues Leroux, Florence Verdet, Roberto Chavez: Street Addressing and the Management of Cities . World Bank, Washington, DC 2005, ISBN 0-8213-5815-4 , pp. 85 and 89 .
  3. Apollinaire Tini: La gestion des déchets solid ménagers à Niamey au Niger: essai pour une stratégie de gestion durable . Thèse de doctorat. Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon, Lyon 2003, p. 43 ( theses.insa-lyon.fr [PDF; accessed May 1, 2019]).
  4. Répertoire National des localites (ReNaLoc). (RAR) Institut National de la Statistique de la République du Niger, July 2014, p. 716 , accessed on 7 August 2015 (French).
  5. ^ Répertoire National des Communes (RENACOM). (RAR) (No longer available online.) Institut National de la Statistique de la République du Niger, archived from the original on January 9, 2017 ; Retrieved November 8, 2010 (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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stat-niger.org
  6. Recensement Général de la Population 1988: Répertoire National des Villages du Niger . Bureau Central de Recensement, Ministère du Plan, République du Niger, Niamey March 1991, p. 225 ( web.archive.org [PDF; accessed May 4, 2019]).
  7. Rapport de l'étude preparatoire pour le projet de construction des établissements d'enseignement secondaire au Niger. (PDF) Chapitre 2. Agence japonaise de coopération internationale (JICA), April 2013, p. 15 , accessed on June 6, 2019 (French).
  8. ^ Sandra Bornand: Une narration à deux voix. Exemple de coénonciation chez les jasare songhay-zarma du Niger . In: Ursula Baumgardt, Sandra Bornand (Eds.): Autour de la performance (=  Cahiers de littérature orale . No. 65 ). Langues O ', Paris 2010, ISBN 978-2-85831-182-8 , pp. 52 ( journals.openedition.org [accessed August 24, 2019]).