Malawa (Niger)
| Malawa rural community | |||
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| Coordinates | 13 ° 2 ' N , 9 ° 37' E | ||
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| Country | Niger | ||
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| department | Dungass | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | NE-7 | ||
| Residents | 65,195 (2010) | ||
Malawa (also: Mallaoua ) is a rural community in the Dungass department in Niger .
geography
Malawa lies at the transition from the large Sudan to the Sahel zone and borders the neighboring state of Nigeria in the southeast . The neighboring communities in Niger are Gouchi in the north, Bouné in the northeast, Dogo-Dogo in the southwest and Dungass in the northwest. The municipality is divided into 79 administrative villages, five traditional villages, 63 hamlets and nine camps. The main town of the rural community is the administrative village of Malawa (also: Mallaoua). The Wadi Korama ends in the municipality .
history
The French colonial administration set up in the early 20th century by Kanuri populated Malawa a Canton one. In the 1960s, Malawa developed into an important center for the cultivation of peanuts , Niger's most important export at the time. In 1962/1963 868.4 tons of peanuts were produced here, in 1967/1968 it was already 4,380.8 tons.
In 2002, as part of a nationwide administrative reform, the Malawa canton became the rural community of Malawa. Since 2011, the rural community no longer belongs to the Magaria department , but to the newly founded Dungass department.
population
At the 2001 census, Malawa had 48,013 residents. For 2010, 65,195 inhabitants were calculated. Besides Kanuri, members of the Daourawa Fulbe subgroup, which mainly practices agropastoralism , as well as the Bornanko'en and Katchinanko'en Fulbe subgroups, which specialize in remote grazing, live in Malawa .
Economy and Infrastructure
The community is located in that narrow zone along the border with Nigeria, which stretches from Malawa to Tounouga in the west and is used for irrigation farming for cash crops .
Individual evidence
- ^ Répertoire National des Communes (RENACOM) . ( Memento of the original from January 9, 2017 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. (RAR compressed) website of the Institut National de la Statistique; Retrieved January 22, 2011.
- ↑ Loi n ° 2002-014 du 11 June 2002 portant création des communes et fixant le nom de leurs chefs-lieux Republic of Niger
- ↑ Edmond Séré de Rivières: Histoire du Niger . Berger-Levrault, Paris 1965, p. 251.
- ↑ Yves Péhaut: L'arachide au Niger (= Études d'économie africaine Série Afrique noire. . No. 1 ). Pedone, Paris 1970, p. 87 .
- ↑ Une nouvelle loi sur le redécoupage administratif . In: L'Arbre à Palabres . No. 13 , August 11, 2011, p. 2 ( nigerdiaspora.net [PDF; accessed on January 28, 2014]).
- ^ Annuaire statistique des cinquante ans d'indépendance du Niger . (PDF; 3.1 MB) Institut Nationale de la Statistique du Niger, Niamey 2010, p. 57.
- ↑ La mobilité pastorale in the region of Zinder. Stratégies et dynamisme des sociétés pastorales . ( Memento of the original from July 13, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 11.3 MB) Ministère de l'élevage et des industries animales / République du Niger, Niamey 2009, p. 33.
- ^ Comprendre l'économie des ménages ruraux au Niger . ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2013 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. (PDF; 2.6 MB) Save the Children UK, London 2009, p. 8.
