Lété (island)
| Lété | ||
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| Waters | Niger | |
| Geographical location | 12 ° 9 ' N , 3 ° 9' E | |
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| length | 16 km | |
| width | 4 km | |
| surface | 40 km² | |
| Residents | 1283 (2001) 32 inhabitants / km² |
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| main place | Lété | |
Lété (also Lété Goungou ) is an inhabited island in the Niger River . It is located in Niger on the border with Benin .
geography
The 40 km² large river island belongs to the municipality of the rural community of Tanda in the Gaya department . It is 16 km long and over 4 km wide. Lété has fertile soil and good grazing land. According to the 2001 census, there were 1283 inhabitants in 164 households.
Territorial dispute
The island of Lété was the subject of a border conflict between Benin and Niger. The Niger and Mékrou rivers were defined as the border between the two French colonies , without taking into account that the course of the river could change. Benin (then: Republic of Dahomey ) and Niger became independent states in 1960. The local President Coutoucou Hubert Maga , a good friend of the Nigerien President Hamani Diori , had to resign in October 1963 and hand over power to the military. In December 1963, both states sent their forces to the Niger River. The state border was closed and Niger could no longer use the sea port of Cotonou to export peanuts. Hamani Diori had workers from Dahomey deported. In 1965 the Ivorian President Félix Houphouët-Boigny brokered a preliminary compromise, according to which Lété was placed under the joint administration of Dahomey and Niger. The conflict flared up again in the 1990s when Benin claimed 24 other river islands and in return only wanted to forego the island of Lété. Benin and Niger took the dispute before the International Court of Justice in The Hague , which ruled in July 2005 that Lété and 15 other islands should fall to Niger and nine islands to Benin. Both states accepted the decision.
literature
- Harouna Mounkaila: Espace frontalier et appropriations territoriales: jeux et enjeux autour de l'île de Lété (Niger) . In: Cahiers d'Outre-Mer . No. 249 , 2010, p. 121-140 ( com.revues.org ).
- Boubacar Sani Ousmane: Dynamique pastorale dans la commune de Tanda, cas de l'île de Lété (zone d'intervention du projet RIPIECSA) . Faculté d'Agronomie, Université Abdou Moumouni de Niamey, Niamey 2010.
Individual evidence
- ↑ SS Manzo: Lete Goungou: historique d'un heureux dénouement . Le Sahel website, published September 9, 2011, accessed February 11, 2013.
- ^ Affaire du Différend frontalier (Benin / Niger). Résumé de l'arrêt du 12 juillet 2005 ( Memento of the original from December 16, 2015 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. (PDF file; 147 kB). International Court of Justice website, published July 12, 2005, accessed February 11, 2013.
- ↑ Lété Goungou ( 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. . Website of the Institut National de la Statistique - Niger, accessed February 11, 2013.
- ↑ Edmond Séré de Rivières: Histoire du Niger . Berger-Levrault, Paris 1965, p. 261.
- ↑ Abdourahmane Idrissa and Samuel Decalo: Historical Dictionary of Niger . 4th ed., Scarecrow, Plymouth 2012, ISBN 978-0-8108-6094-0 , p. 98.
- ↑ Edmond Séré de Rivières: Histoire du Niger . Berger-Levrault, Paris 1965, p. 262.
- ↑ Abdourahmane Idrissa and Samuel Decalo: Historical Dictionary of Niger . 4th ed., Scarecrow, Plymouth 2012, ISBN 978-0-8108-6094-0 , p. 99.
- ↑ De la loi authorisant ratification de la loi no. 2001-25 du 9 November 2002, relative au compromis de saisine de la Cour Internationale de Justice , La Revue Législative (Publication de l'Assemblée nationale du Niger), Fèvrier 2003 - No. 01, pp. 22-24.
