Maïjirgui
| Maïjirgui rural parish | |||
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| Coordinates | 13 ° 44 ' N , 8 ° 8' E | ||
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| Country | Niger | ||
| Maradi | |||
| department | Tessaoua | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | NE-4 | ||
| Residents | 70,655 (2012) | ||
Maijirgiu is a rural municipality in the department Tessaoua in Niger .
geography
Maïjirgui lies at the transition from the Sahel to the greater Sudan landscape . The neighboring communities are Ourafane in the northeast, Garagoumsa in the east, Baoudetta , Koona and Korgom in the southeast, Gazaoua in the south, Aguié in the southwest and Issawane , Kanan-Bakaché and Tessaoua in the northwest. The municipality is divided into 25 administrative villages, 16 traditional villages, 40 hamlets, four camps and a water point. The main town of the rural community is the administrative village of Maïjirgui.
The Forêt classée de Chabaré is a 795 hectare protected forest area in the municipality of Maïjirgui. It was placed under protection in 1952.
history
Julien Chanoine and Paul Voulet , the leaders of the French military expedition, Mission Voulet-Chanoine , notorious for their cruelty , were killed by their own soldiers in Maïjirgui on July 16 and 17, 1899, respectively, and buried there under an ana tree. On December 6 of the same year, another French military expedition, the Foureau-Lamy mission, stopped in the village, which had previously crossed the Sahara and then moved on to Lake Chad .
The Maïjirgui market was one of the small markets in the region that was authorized by the French administration at the beginning of the 20th century.
The rural community of Maïjirgui emerged in 2002 as part of a nationwide administrative reform from that part of the canton of Tessaoua that was not added to the municipality of Tessaoua.
population
At the 2001 census, Maïjirgui had 44,183 inhabitants. At the 2012 census, the population was 70,655.
Economy and Infrastructure
The community is located in a zone where rain-fed agriculture is practiced. National Road 1 runs through Maïjirgui and connects the town with the regional capitals Maradi and Zinder .
literature
- Aboubacar Mahamadou Tchiyabou: Association agriculture-élevage dans la gestion des exploitations agricoles. Cas du village de Maïjirgui in the department of Tessaoua . Faculté d'Agronomie, Université Abdou Moumouni de Niamey, Niamey 2015.
- Salissou Rabo Issaka: Etat des lieux de la biodiversité ligneuse de la forêt de Chabaré (Tessaoua) . Faculté d'Agronomie, Université Abdou Moumouni de Niamey, Niamey 2009.
- Illo Souley: Actualisation d'un plan de développement d'une grappe de villages in the region of Maradi. Cas de Chabaré . Faculté d'Agronomie, Université Abdou Moumouni de Niamey, Niamey 2005.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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.
- ^ Republic of Niger: Loi n ° 2002-014 du 11 JUIN 2002 portant création des communes et fixant le nom de leurs chefs-lieux .
- ^ Données available for chaque forêt classée. Direction de l'Environnement, Ministère de l'Hydraulique, de l'Environnement et de la Lutte Contre la Désertification, archived from the original on July 29, 2012 ; accessed on October 31, 2019 (French).
- ^ Jean-Paul Labourdette, Dominique Auzias: Niger 2009 . Nouvelle édition de l'Université, Paris 2009, ISBN 2-7469-1640-1 , pp. 138 .
- ↑ Fernand Foureau : Documents scientifiques de la mission saharienne. Mission Foureau-Lamy d'Alger au Congo par le Tchad . Atlas (cartographer: Verlet-Hanus). Masson, Paris 1905 ( jubilotheque.upmc.fr [accessed May 6, 2018]).
- ↑ Hassane Gandah Nabi: Commerçants et entrepreneurs du Niger (1922-2006) . L'Harmattan, Paris 2013, ISBN 978-2-336-29136-9 , pp. 38 .
- ^ 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. 55.
- ↑ 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).
- ^ 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.
