Madawella

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Location of Madawella in Niger

Madawella (also: Madaouela , Madaouella , Madawela ) is a village in the municipality of Arlit in Niger .

The village, run by a traditional chief ( chef traditionnel ), is located around ten kilometers southeast of the city center of Arlit, the capital of the Arlit department of the same name , which belongs to the Agadez region.

Madawella was founded in the late 1950s by employees of the French state nuclear energy center Commissariat à l'énergie atomique (CEA). Here the CEA discovered one of the first uranium deposits in Niger . The settlement served as the main base for the European and African CEA employees. Soon, more significant uranium deposits were discovered further northwest, where the center of Arlit later emerged.

After Niger gained independence from France in 1960, Niger’s armed forces took over the facilities in Madawella and made it an important garrison location. During the rule of the Council of National Reconciliation under President Daouda Malam Wanké , an unexpected mutiny by soldiers against administrative officials broke out in the garrisons of Madawella and Agadez on November 9, 1999 .

The China Nuclear International Uranium Corporation (SinoU), a subsidiary of the Chinese state-owned company China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC), received a concession from the Niger government to exploit the Madawella uranium deposit in 2007 through a private company in Hong Kong . At that time this covered an area of ​​1872 km² with a proven occurrence of 6191 tons of uranium. After the withdrawal of SinoU , a subsidiary of the Canadian Govi High-Power Exploration (GoviEx) received a concession for the deposit in 2016 .

At the 2012 census, Madawella had 667 residents who lived in 115 households. At the 2001 census the population was 861 in 130 households and at the 1988 census the population was 497 in 97 households.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b National Repertoire des Localités (ReNaLoc). (RAR) Institut National de la Statistique de la République du Niger, July 2014, p. 5 , accessed on 7 August 2015 (French).
  2. ↑ Emmanuel Grégoire: Niger Touaregs. Le destin d'un mythe . 2nd Edition. Karthala, Paris 2010, ISBN 978-2-8111-0352-1 , pp. 116 .
  3. ↑ Abdoulaye Niandou Souley : Mutineries militaires en période de democratisation . In: Kimba Idrissa (ed.): Army et politique au Niger . Codesria, Dakar 2008, ISBN 2-86978-216-0 , p. 244 .
  4. ^ First uranium from Niger mine. World Nuclear News, January 4, 2011, accessed January 20, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Abdoulkader Aghali: La commune d'In Gall (3) (=  Etudes et Travaux du LASDEL . No. 73 ). LASDEL, Niamey / Parakou October 2008, p. 4 ( lasdel.net [PDF; accessed January 20, 2019]).
  6. ↑ Niger: le canadien GoviEx obtient un permis d'exploitation d'uranium. In: Jeune Afrique . January 27, 2016, accessed January 20, 2019 (French).
  7. ^ Répertoire National des Communes (RENACOM). (RAR file) (No longer available online.) Institut National de la Statistique, 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. ↑ 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. 29 ( ceped.org [PDF; accessed January 31, 2018]). www.ceped.org ( Memento of the original dated January 31, 2018 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ceped.org

Coordinates: 18 ° 40 ′  N , 7 ° 29 ′  E