Kornaka

Kornaka rural community
Kornaka rural community
Coordinates	14 ° 25 '  N , 6 ° 54'  E Coordinates: 14 ° 25 '  N , 6 ° 54'  E
Basic data
Country	Niger
region	Maradi
department	Dakoro
Residents	140.009 (2012)

Kornaka (also: Kournaka ) is a rural community in the Dakoro Department in Niger .

geography

Kornaka lies at the transition from the Sahel to the greater Sudan landscape . The neighboring communities are Birni Lallé in the north, Guidan Amoumoune in the east, Maïyara in the south, Sabon-Machi in the southwest and Adjékoria in the northwest. The municipality is divided into 149 administrative villages, one traditional village, 121 hamlets and 59 camps. The main town of the rural community is the administrative village of Kornaka. In the south of Kornaka there is a large valley, the Goulbi n'Kaba.

history

The French colonial administration established a canton in Kornaka in 1900 . The rural community of Kornaka emerged as an administrative unit in 2002 as part of a nationwide administrative reform from the canton of Kornaka, from which Adjékoria, Dan-Goulbi , Maïyara and Sabon-Machi were also separated as independent rural communities.

population

At the 2001 census, Kornaka had 105,097 inhabitants. At the 2012 census, the population was 140,009.

Economy and Infrastructure

Agropastoralism is practiced in the north-east of the community, while rain- fed farming is the predominant form of livelihood in the south-west . Kornaka is on the national road 30 , which connects the place with the departmental capital Dakoro .

Personalities

• Amadou Cheiffou (* 1942), politician, Prime Minister of Niger
• Sanoussi Jackou (* 1940), politician

literature

• Élodie Edouard: La coopération décentralisée: une nouvelle compétence des collectivités territoriales. Exemple du program concerté de coopération décentralisée entre la Basse-Normandie et le canton de Kornaka, Niger . Mémoire. Université de Caen Basse-Normandie, Caen 2010.
• Cornelia Nicodemus: Indigenous Food Storage and Colonial Crisis Prevention Policy. Forced storage and "Sociétés Indigènes de Prévoyance" in the colony of Niger after 1932 . Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2000, ISBN 978-3-631-36578-6 , chap. The drought in the canton of Kornaka in 1937 , p. 108-111 .

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. ^ Republic of Niger: Loi n ° 2002-014 du 11 JUIN 2002 portant création des communes et fixant le nom de leurs chefs-lieux .
3. ↑ Edmond Séré de Rivières: Histoire du Niger . Berger-Levrault, Paris 1965, p. 22.
4. ↑ Edmond Séré de Rivières: Histoire du Niger . Berger-Levrault, Paris 1965, p. 247.
5. ^ 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.
6. ↑ 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). 
7. ^ 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.