Makalondi

Makalondi rural community
Makalondi rural community
Coordinates	12 ° 50 ′  N , 1 ° 41 ′  E Coordinates: 12 ° 50 ′  N , 1 ° 41 ′  E
Basic data
Country	Niger
region	Tillabéri
department	Torodi
Residents	73,271 (2012)

Makalondi (also: Makalandé , Makalendé and Makolondi ) is a rural community in the Torodi department in Niger .

geography

Bus in Makalondi

Makalondi lies at the transition from the Sahel to the greater Sudan landscape . The community borders on the neighboring state of Burkina Faso in the south and west . The neighboring communities in Niger are Torodi in the north and Ouro Guélédjo in the east. The municipality is divided into 28 administrative villages. The main town of the rural municipality is Makalondi, consisting of the administrative villages Makalondi Gourmantché and Makalondi Haoussa.

On the higher plains of Makalondi, for which tiger bush is typical as a form of vegetation, winged plants , acacias , baobabs , doum palms and shea trees grow . Khaya senegalensis and tamarind trees thrive in the lowlands . The average annual amount of precipitation in the period 1961–1990 was around 600 mm . The Makalondi District is recognized as an Important Bird Area . It is an area of ​​200,000 ha with a radius of about 25 km and the main town as the center. The important bird species native to this area include the long-tailed starling , the soot-hedge warbler , the Saviletrappe and the Sudan bag tit . The bird life was mainly studied by the missionary Pierre Souvairan , who lived in the area from 1968 to 1998. African elephants , cape buffalo and lions were still common in Makalondi until the 1970s , and largely disappeared in the 1980s due to increasing agricultural use.

history

Makalondi was detached on August 18, 2009 as a separate rural municipality from the area of ​​the rural municipality Torodi. The reasons for the separation from Torodi included the high population density in this area and especially Makalondi's position as an important border town. Since 2011 Makalondi no longer belongs to the Say department , but to the newly established Torodi department.

population

Makalondi parish had 73,271 inhabitants at the 2012 census, living in 8,975 households. The main town of Makalondi had 5311 inhabitants in the 2012 census, 2514 inhabitants in the 2001 census and 1657 inhabitants in the 1988 census. The rural community is located in the Gourmantché settlement area . According to the 2001 census, 0.4% of the total population of Niger belong to this ethno-linguistic group. In order to enable their representation in the national assembly , the parliament of Niger, Makalondi forms one of eight special constituencies in parliamentary elections. While the regular constituencies, in which a certain number of MPs are elected, correspond to the eight regions of Niger, those entitled to vote in the special constituencies each elect their own MP. Makalondi is the only municipality in Niger that forms a special constituency. The remaining seven special constituencies correspond to departments and are therefore located as an administrative unit one level above municipalities.

Culture

There are two Roman Catholic parishes in Makalondi that belong to the Archdiocese of Niamey : the St. Francis parish in the main town, founded in 1967, and the Holy Spirit parish in the village of Bomanga (Bomoanga), founded in 1994. Its members are predominantly members of the Gourmantché ethnic group.

Economy and Infrastructure

Health center in Makalondi

The rural community is in a zone where rain-fed agriculture is practiced. There is a border crossing to Burkina Faso in Makalondi. The opposite border town in the neighboring state is Kantchari . National road 6 runs through Makalondi . It connects the nearby Niamey , the capital of Niger, with Ouagadougou , the capital of Burkina Faso. The market day in the main town is Monday. Traditional soaps, colorful calabashes , grain wings from Sokoto and mats that are used for fencing called tatara are sold, as well as vegetables such as tomatoes, onions and lettuce. There are numerous gardens in the main town, which are supported by aid projects from the Catholic Mission and from France . Cabbage, tomatoes and lettuce are mainly grown here, and there are fruit trees.

literature

• Kangnivi Ayi Ekue: Contraintes environnementales et stratégies paysannes d'adaptation. Organization of the activités économiques, sociales de Saison de pluie dans le village de Makalondi . Faculté d'Agronomie, Université Abdou Moumouni de Niamey, Niamey 2010.

Web links

Commons : Makalondi  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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2. ↑ P. Montagne: Les marchés ruraux de bois-énergie au Niger: outils de développement rural local . In: JM d'Herbès, JMK Ambouta, R. Peltier (eds.): Fonctionnement et gestion des écosystèmes forestiers contractés sahéliens . John Libbey Eurotext, Paris 1997, ISBN 2-7420-0193-X , p. 196 .
3. ^ Joost Brouwer, S. François Codjo, Wim C. Mullié: Important Bird Areas in Africa and associated islands - Niger. (PDF file) BirdLife International, p. 666 , accessed on January 28, 2014 (English). 
4. ↑ Au Conseil des ministres: Le gouvernement adopte un projet d'ordonnance complétant l'ordonnance n ° 2009-03 du 18 août 2009 modifiant la loi n ° 2003-35 du 27 août 2003 portant composition et délimitation des Communes . In: Le Sahel . No. 7794 , September 23, 2009, p. 1 ( PDF file [accessed January 28, 2014]). PDF file ( Memento of the original dated October 7, 2009 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.  
5. ↑ Une nouvelle loi sur le redécoupage administratif . In: L'Arbre à Palabres . No. 13 , August 11, 2011, p. 2 ( PDF file [accessed January 28, 2014]).
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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. 256 ( 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.  
10. ↑ Niger. In: Ethnologue: Languages ​​of the World. Seventeenth edition. SIL International, 2013, accessed January 26, 2013 . 
11. ^ Annuaire statistique des cinquante ans d'indépendance du Niger. (PDF file; 3.1 MB) Institut Nationale de la Statistique du Niger, 2010, p. 63 , accessed on January 26, 2013 (French). 
12. ↑ Conseil Constitutionnel de Transition: Arrêt n ° 009/11 / CCT / ME du 16 mars 2011. (PDF file) March 16, 2011, pp. 2–3 , accessed on January 28, 2014 (French). 
13. ^ Saint François Makalondi. Eglise Catholique au Niger, accessed July 1, 2015 (French). 
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15. ^ Frédéric Giraut: La petite ville. A milieu adapté aux paradoxes de l'Afrique de l'Ouest. Etudes sur le semis et comparaison du système social et-spatial de sept localités: Badou et Anié (Togo), Jasikan et Kadjebi (Ghana), Torodi, Tamaské et Keïta (Niger) . Dissertation. University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris 1994, p. 148 ( PDF file; 2.3 MB [accessed January 28, 2014]).
16. ↑ Dissirama Sabine Attama, Rita Dorigo, Toye Amina Kiepin: Program de formation en faveur de l'Artisanat Modulaire Rural: Rapport de la Mission d'identification dans la région de Gothèye et dans le Liptako Gourma . RESEDA, Niamey April 1994, p. 15 ( Word file [accessed May 2, 2014]). Word file ( Memento of the original dated May 2, 2014 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.