Kousséri
| Kousséri | |||
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| Coordinates | 12 ° 5 ' N , 15 ° 2' E | ||
| Basic data | |||
| Country | Cameroon | ||
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| district | Logone-et-Chari | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | CM-EN | ||
| Residents | 180,000 (2005) | ||
| Metropolitan area | 500,000 (2007) | ||
Kousséri (German also Kusseri ; 1915–1960: Fort-Foureau ) is a city in the province of Extreme North , which forms the northern tip of Cameroon . It lies on the Logone River and on the border with Chad .
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Kousséri is the capital of the Logone-et-Chari district and an important trading center for goods from the neighboring country. Therefore, the city has grown very quickly in the recent past. An estimate in 2005 estimated almost 180,000 inhabitants for the actual city, another in 2007 approx. 500,000 including the suburban belt. The majority of the population speaks Arabic , a large number of them come from neighboring Chad and are also known as Shua Arabs .
history
The history of Kousséri goes back at least to the Sao culture . The current name is of Arabic origin and derived from Qussur ( قصور , "castles"). In the 16th century it became an Islamized vassal city of the Kingdom of Kanem-Bornu .
On April 22, 1900, the city was the scene of the battle of Kousséri between the Afro-Arab warlord Rabih az-Zubayr , who had subjugated Bornu in 1893 , and French colonial troops under Colonel Amédée-François Lamy . Both troop leaders were killed in the battle. The ultimately victorious French troops occupied the city and handed it over to the German protection force a year later . Since then, Kousséri has belonged to the Cameroon colony and in 1903 became the seat of residence of the German Tschadseeländer (until 1913). According to the principle of indirect rule , the local ruler ( Miarre ) remained in office even under German administration, but was de facto bound by the instructions of the residency. At the beginning of the First World War , a small German post was set up in Kousséri. Due to the nearby French fort Lamy , the German side was in an inferior position. The approximately 30 members of the protection force faced over 200 French colonial soldiers. Nevertheless, all attacks on Kousséri could be repelled by the end of September 1914 before the defenders withdrew to Mora . The city was called Fort-Foureau from 1915 to 1960 : after Fernand Foureau , who led the Foureau-Lamy mission through Africa with Amédée-François Lamy .
traffic
The longest national road in Cameroon, the N1 , and the provincial road P28 end in Kousseri. A bridge over the border river Logone leads to the nearby Chadian capital N'Djamena .
Web links
- Kousseri at cvuc.cm
Individual evidence
- ^ Hans Surén : Battle for Cameroon. Scherl, Berlin 1934, p. 122 f.
- ↑ Article on the Battle of Kousséri in the English language Wikipedia
- ^ Yves Boulvert: Fernand Foureau (1850-1914). Saharan explorer . In: Jacques Serre (Ed.): Hommes et destins . Tome XI. Afrique Noire. L'Harmattan, Paris 2011, ISBN 978-2-296-54603-5 , pp. 314 ( horizon.documentation.ird.fr [PDF; accessed August 17, 2019]).