Lazaret (Niamey)

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Lazaret district
Coordinates 13 ° 33 '  N , 2 ° 7'  E Coordinates: 13 ° 33 '  N , 2 ° 7'  E
Basic data
Country Niger

Capital District

Niamey
Arrondissement Niamey II
ISO 3166-2 NE-8
Residents 24,282 (2012)

Lazaret is a district ( French : quartier ) in the Arrondissement Niamey II of the city of Niamey in Niger .

geography

Lazaret is located in the north of the urban parish of Niamey. The neighboring districts are North Lazaret in the north, Banizoumbou II in the east and Banifandou I in the south. The district covers an area of about 153.3 hectare , and is like the entire northern Niamey in a plateau with a less than 2.5 meters deep layer of sand, only a limited infiltration is thereby possible. When it rains heavily, the roads are flooded, causing traffic problems.

The standard scheme for street names in Lazaret is rue LZ 1 , with the French rue for street followed by the abbreviation LZ for Lazaret 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. These zones do not necessarily coincide with the administrative boundaries of the eponymous districts. The rue LZ 1 scheme is used in the districts of Lazaret, Banizoumbou II and Nord Lazaret.

history

The place name Lazaret (French for military hospital ) refers to an old Catholic auxiliary facility that was founded as a leprosy station. The settlement was created during the famine of the 1970s and 1980s through the immigration of Tuaregs , including from Mali . It was considered to be even poorer than the Boukoki district . In a cholera - epidemic in Frührjahr 1974 here had fled were nomads most affected. The straw huts of the early days were later replaced by permanent houses.

population

At the 2012 census, Lazaret had 24,282 inhabitants who lived in 3,620 households. At the 2001 census the population was 32,750 in 5,260 households, and at the 1988 census the population was 16,098 in 2,557 households.

Infrastructure

The Lazaret market has existed since 1990. It covers an area of ​​0.45 hectares and is primarily used to supply the population of the neighborhood. There are several public primary schools in Lazaret. The oldest, the Ecole primaire de Lazaret I , was founded in 1972. There is a health center in the district with a Center de Santé Intégré (CSI).

Individual evidence

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  5. ↑ Abdourahmane Idrissa, Samuel Decalo: Historical Dictionary of Niger . 4th edition. Scarecrow, Plymouth 2012, ISBN 0-7864-0495-7 , pp. 336 .
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  7. ^ François Martin: Le Niger du Président Diori. Chronology 1960–1974 . L'Harmattan, Paris 1991, ISBN 2-7384-0952-0 , pp. 274 .
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  9. ↑ 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).
  10. ^ 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
  11. ↑ 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. 223 ( web.archive.org [PDF; accessed May 4, 2019]).
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  13. ↑ Daniel Barreteau, Ali Daouda: Systèmes éducatifs et multilinguisme au Niger. Results scolaires, double flux . Orstom / Université Abdou Moumouni de Niamey, Paris / Niamey 1997, ISBN 2-7099-1365-8 , p. 85 ( horizon.documentation.ird.fr [PDF; accessed May 29, 2019]).
  14. ^ Niger DSS. In: Systems Nationale d'Information Sanitaire (SNIS). Ministère de la Santé Publique, République du Niger, accessed on June 9, 2019 (French).