Kokorou

Kokorou rural community
Kokorou rural community
Coordinates	14 ° 12 '  N , 0 ° 56'  E Coordinates: 14 ° 12 '  N , 0 ° 56'  E
Basic data
Country	Niger
region	Tillabéri
department	Téra
Residents	96,218 (2012)

Kokorou (also: Kokoro ) is a rural community in the Téra department in Niger .

geography

Kokorou is located in the southern Sahel on the Niger River . The neighboring municipalities are Bankilaré in the northwest, Dessa in the northeast, Méhana and Sinder in the east, Dargol in the southeast and Téra in the southwest. There are 34 villages, 204 hamlets and four camps in the municipality. The main town of the rural community is the village of Kokorou.

A 66,829 hectare area including the main town and the lakes Mare de Kokorou and Mare de Namga forms the wetlands of the Kokorou-Namga complex , which are protected under the Ramsar Convention .

history

After the fall of the Songhai Oak's 1591 Kokorou one of those places in what is now Niger, on which Songhai -Flüchtlinge under a descendant of the former ruling dynasty Askia settled. The ruler Fari-Monzon founded the state of Gourmey here . His son and successor was called Balma, who was succeeded by his son Oudiendi. During the Fulbe Wars in the 19th century, Yahimonzon was the ruler of Kokorou. Among other things, he and his descendants had to fend off the Fulbe from Torodi and thereby enter into changing alliances with other Songhai and Tuareg . In 1899 the Kokorou area came under French military administration as part of the newly created Sinder district . In 1905 the place was attached to the new military territory of Niger. The French colonial administration established a canton in Kokorou .

At the turn of the 20th to the 21st century, gold prospectors founded the mining settlement Komabangou in the municipality of Kokorou, whose population was estimated at up to 50,000 people at times. The canton of Kokorou was dissolved in 2002 as part of a nationwide administrative reform and its territory was divided between the rural communities of Kokorou and Méhana. In 2009, 335 residents were damaged by floods. In the 2010 flood disaster in West and Central Africa , 875 people in Kokorou were classified as disaster victims.

population

At the 2012 census, Kokorou had 96,218 inhabitants. At the 2001 census, the population was 71,200, more than a quarter of them in the Komabangou mining settlement.

Economy and Infrastructure

Wet rice cultivation is practiced along the Niger River in the northeast . The rest of the municipality is located in a zone where rain-fed agriculture is carried out.

literature

• Aboukassoum Illo: Analysis of the tenure foncière dans un terroir villageois en cours d'aménagement. Cas de Firokoira . Faculté d'Agronomie, Université Abdou Moumouni, Niamey 1992.
• Seyni Zoumari Issa: Le Soney (Songhay) après la conquête marocaine, 1592–1900, formation des provinces historiques (Tera, Gooro (Goruol), Namaro, Kokoru, Gothey). Contribution à l'histoire du Soney post-impérial et précolonial (République du Niger) . Dissertation, University of Paris 1 1982.
• Hassane Tanimoune: Compétition autour des ressources agricoles et pastorales et conflits agriculteurs-éléveurs dans le Canton de Kokorou . Mémoire. Faculté des Lettres et Sciences Humaines, Université Abdou Moumouni de Niamey, Niamey 2013.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} National Repertoire des Localités (ReNaLoc). (RAR) Institut National de la Statistique de la République du Niger, July 2014, pp. 505–510 , accessed on 7 August 2015 (French). 
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. ↑ Kokorou-Namga Complexes. In: Ramsar Sites Information Service. April 13, 2018, accessed March 10, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Edmond Séré de Rivières: Histoire du Niger . Berger-Levrault, Paris 1965, pp. 74-75.
5. ↑ Edmond Séré de Rivières: Histoire du Niger . Berger-Levrault, Paris 1965, pp. 234-235.
6. ↑ Edmond Séré de Rivières: Histoire du Niger . Berger-Levrault, Paris 1965, p. 238.
7. ↑ Abdourahmane Idrissa, Samuel Decalo: Historical Dictionary of Niger . 4th edition. Scarecrow, Plymouth 2012, ISBN 0-7864-0495-7 , pp. 396 .
8. ↑ Situation des besoins des populations victimes d'inondations (2009) ( Memento of the original dated February 2, 2014 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. . Center d'Information et de Communication website, published on September 22, 2009, accessed on March 31, 2012. 
9. ↑ Situation des besoins des populations victimes d'inondations (2010) ( Memento of the original from October 16, 2014 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. . Website of the Center d'Information et de Communication, published on September 23, 2010, accessed on March 31, 2012. 
10. ^ Répertoire National des Communes (RENACOM). (RAR file) (No longer available online.) Institut National de la Statistique, 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.  
11. ^ 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.