Maïné-Soroa

Municipality of Maïné-Soroa
Municipality of Maïné-Soroa
Coordinates	13 ° 13 '  N , 12 ° 1'  E Coordinates: 13 ° 13 '  N , 12 ° 1'  E
Basic data
Country	Niger
region	Diffa
department	Maïné-Soroa
Residents	78,735 (2012)

Maïné-Soroa (in Tuareg Măyne-Ṣǝrwa ) is a municipality and the capital of the Maïné-Soroa department in Niger .

geography

Location and structure

Maïné-Soroa is located in the Manga landscape in the Sahel zone , on the border with Nigeria , and is around 70 kilometers from the regional capital Diffa . In the southeast, the Komadougou Yobé river forms the state border. The neighboring communities in Niger are Foulatari and N'Guelbély in the north, Chétimari in the east and Goudoumaria in the west. The urban area is divided into seven districts, 122 administrative villages, 82 traditional villages, 16 hamlets, 120 camps and 53 water points. The seven districts are Angoul Yamma et Douaram, Château, Deouram Château, Djambourou, Ganga Mari, Oungoua Yamma (Sabongari I) and Sabongari II. Northeast of the city center, the Kadzell clay plain runs to the town of N'Guigmi .

climate

Average monthly temperatures and precipitation for Maïné-Soroa (2010) Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Max. Temperature ( ° C ) 33.5 37.7 38.5 43.1 43.6 39.2 35.3 33.5 35.3 39.4 37.8 32.4 O 37.4 Min. Temperature (° C) 14.8 19.2 22.0 27.0 28.5 26.2 24.7 23.7 23.2 24.0 20.1 14.4 O 22.3 Precipitation ( mm ) 0 0 0 0 0 62.8 165.8 162.3 39.9 0 0 0 Σ 430.8 Rainy days ( d ) 0 0 0 0 0 6th 10 12 9 0 0 0 Σ 37 Source: INS Climatologie (PDF; 124 kB)

history

Maïné-Soroa was founded in the early 19th century as part of the Bornu Empire . The name of the city means "our chief has a mud-brick house". In the middle of the 19th century it was occupied by the Sultan von Zinder until it became part of French West Africa at the turn of the 20th century . In the Nigerian part of Bornus, Maïné-Soroa, along with Chétimari, Gouré and Goudoumaria, is one of the most important places where forms of traditional rule dating back to the Bornu Empire have survived to the present day.

The regional capital Diffa was attacked in February 2015 by the jihadist terrorist group Boko Haram from Nigeria . As early as May 2013, around 150,000 people from neighboring Nigeria had fled to Diffa because of the activities of Boko Haram. Maïné-Soroa was now one of the places that received refugees from Diffa.

population

At the 1977 census Maïné-Soroa had 4973 inhabitants, at the 1988 census 7381 inhabitants and at the 2001 census 9844 inhabitants. At the 2012 census, the population was 78,735. During the rainy season, Wodaabe , a fully nomadic people of cattle herders, move from the south to the area around the city.

Economy and Infrastructure

Dunes between the hamlet of Wawouri I and the national road 1 in Maïné-Soroa

In the southeast at Komadougou Yobé, irrigation farming is practiced. This is followed by the zone of rain-fed agriculture . In the north begins the zone of agropastoralism . There is a cattle market in Maïné-Soroa. The market day is Wednesday. The city is the seat of a Tribunal d'Instance, one of the country's 30 civil courts , which are below the ten civil courts of the first instance (Tribunal de Grande Instance).

Maïné-Soroa is located on national road 1 , which connects the place with the Nigerien capital Niamey over a distance of around 1300 kilometers . The city is home to a civil airport with an unpaved runway, Maïné-Soroa Airport ( ICAO code : DRZM).

Personalities

• Grémah Boucar (* 1959), journalist, media entrepreneur and politician
• Yacouba Sido (1910–1988), politician
• Mamadou Diallo Sory (1927–1996), officer, politician and diplomat
• Tandja Mamadou (* 1938), officer, politician and diplomat; President from 1999 to 2010

literature

• Oumarou Boubacar: Diversification of cultures irriguées dans les cuvettes oasiennes de Maïné Soroa. Cas d'Adebour et de Tchaballam . Faculté d'Agronomie, Université Abdou Moumouni de Niamey, Niamey 2006.
• Maman Chégou: Etude des facteurs de la production dattière dans les cuvettes de Maïné-Soroa, Département de Diffa . Faculté d'Agronomie, Université de Niamey, Niamey 1989.
• Jolijn Geels: Niger . Bradt, Chalfont St Peter 2006, ISBN 1-84162-152-8 .
• Lisbet Holtedahl: Knowledgeable and ranked in the field of polytechnics. Social organization in Maine-Soroa, Niger . Diploma thesis, University of Tromsø 1973.

Web links

Commons : Maïné-Soroa  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Karl-G. Prasse, Ghoubeïd Alojaly, Ghabdouane Mohamed: Dictionnaire Touareg - Français (Niger): M – Ž . Museum Tasculanum Press, Copenhagen 2003, ISBN 87-7289-844-5 , p. 570 .
2. ↑ 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. 
3. ↑ Marc Leblanc: Modélisation hydrogéologique de la nappe quaternaire du Manga (Niger Sud-Oriental) . DESS Hydrogéologie et environnement. Université d'Avignon et des pays du Vaucluse / ORSTOM, Avignon / Montpellier 1997, p. 9 and 25 ( horizon.documentation.ird.fr [PDF; accessed February 17, 2019]).
4. ↑ Michael H. Horowitz: Barbers and bearers: ecology and ethnicity in an islamic society . In: Africa: Journal of the International African Institute. Vol. 44, No. 4 . Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh 1974, p. 371 f.
5. ↑ Niger: Timeline regarding the Humanitarian Situation in Diffa (as of 15 August 2015). (PDF) OCHA , August 5, 2015, accessed on May 21, 2018 (English). 
6. ↑ World Gazetteer: Maïné-Soroa ( Memento of the original dated December 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) 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. , accessed January 8, 2010. 
7. ↑ Presentation of the résultats globaux définitifs du Quatrième (4ème) Recensement Général de la Population et de l'Habitat (RGP / H) de 2012. (PDF file) Institut National de la Statistique, 2014, accessed on April 21, 2014 (French ). 
8. ^ Jean-Paul Labourdette, Dominique Auzias: Niger 2009 . Nouvelle édition de l'Université, Paris 2009, ISBN 2-7469-1640-1 , pp. 155 .
9. ^ 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. 
10. ^ Mahamadou Saley, Yatta Paul Maurice Mohamed: Projet Régional d'Appui au Pastoralisme au Sahel (PRAPS). Etude diagnostique des Systèmes d'Information sur les marchés à bétail du Burkina Faso, du Mali, de la Mauritanie, du Niger, du Sénégal et du Tchad. Définitif report. (PDF) CILSS , November 2016, accessed on May 2, 2018 (French). 
11. ↑ Bachir Talfi: Note sur l'organization judiciaire . Nigerien Ministry of Justice website, accessed September 24, 2012.
12. ↑ Airports in Niger . Aircraft Charter World website, accessed January 23, 2012.