Lacouroussou

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Lacouroussou district
Coordinates 13 ° 31 '  N , 2 ° 7'  E Coordinates: 13 ° 31 '  N , 2 ° 7'  E
Basic data
Country Niger

Capital District

Niamey
Arrondissement Niamey III
ISO 3166-2 NE-8
Residents 2691 (2012)

Lacouroussou (also: Lakouroussou ) is a district ( French : quartier ) in the Arrondissement Niamey III of the city of Niamey in Niger .

geography

Lacouroussou is located in Niamey city center. It is bordered by the streets of the Boulevard de la Liberté, the Rue du Sénégal and the Rue du Tchad. The neighboring neighborhoods are Banizoumbou in the northwest, Kalley Est in the east and Kalley Center in the southwest. Lacouroussou covers an area of ​​about 16.4 hectares . The district is located in a table land with a layer of sand that is more than 2.5 meters deep in the north and less than 2.5 meters in the south.

The standard scheme for street names in Lacouroussou and other districts is rue GM 1 , with the French rue for street being followed by the abbreviation GM for Grand Marché , a large market bordering Lacouroussou in the west, 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

The district goes back to the French colonial era, which lasted until 1960. It historically belongs to the Kalley district . The place name Lacouroussou is a corruption of the French la course , "the racetrack", after the old location of the Hippodrome . The district was on the outskirts until the early 1950s, when Niamey began to grow rapidly. At the beginning of the 21st century, Lacouroussou belonged to Niamey II until it switched to Niamey III.

population

At the 2012 census, Lacouroussou had 2,691 inhabitants who lived in 493 households. At the 2001 census, the population was 4,024 in 622 households, and at the 1988 census, the population was 4,486 in 913 households.

Infrastructure

The houses in Lacouroussou are usually adobe buildings without any comfort. Cooking takes place outdoors. There is no running water and accordingly no showers and water closets.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b 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. ^ The Study on Sanitation Improvement for the Niamey City in Republic of Niger. Appendix F: Existing Urban Conditions. (PDF) Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), August 2000, p. F-4 , accessed on April 19, 2019 .
  3. ↑ 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 .
  4. ↑ 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]).
  5. ↑ Arouna Hamidou Sidikou : Niamey . In: Les Cahiers d'Outre-Mer . No. 111 , September 1975, p. 212 ( persee.fr [accessed May 5, 2019]).
  6. ↑ Kokou Henri Motcho: Niamey, Garin captan Salma ou l'histoire du peuplement de la ville de Niamey . In: Jérôme Aloko-N'Guessan, Amadou Diallo, Kokou Henri Motcho (eds.): Villes et organization de l'espace en Afrique . Karthala, Paris 2010, ISBN 978-2-8111-0339-2 , pp. 28 .
  7. ↑ a b 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
  8. ↑ 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).
  9. ↑ 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]).
  10. ↑ Kokou Henri Motcho, Hamadou Issaka: Diversité of stratégies résidentielles des familles démunies à Niamey. (PDF) Université Abdou Moumouni de Niamey, July 25, 2018, p. 2 , accessed on May 5, 2019 (French).