Malbaza
| Malbaza rural community | |||
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| Coordinates | 13 ° 58 ' N , 5 ° 30' E | ||
| Basic data | |||
| Country | Niger | ||
| Tahoua | |||
| department | Malbaza | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | NE-5 | ||
| Residents | 114,432 (2012) | ||
| politics | |||
| mayor | Assoumane Hamani (2004) | ||
| Political party | PNDS Tarayya | ||
Malbaza is a rural municipality and the capital of the Malbaza department of the same name in Niger .
geography
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Malbaza is located at the transition from the Sudan to the Sahel zone . The neighboring communities are Tajaé in the northwest, Badaguichiri in the northeast, Doguérawa in the east, Tsernaoua in the south and Alléla in the west. The municipality is divided into 37 administrative villages, three traditional villages, 78 hamlets and two camps. The main town of the rural community is the village of Malbaza. The largest villages in the municipality by population include Guidan Ider and Tchouroutt . The dry valley Maggia runs through the rural community .
history
The rural community of Malbaza emerged as an administrative unit in 2002 as part of a nationwide administrative reform from the western part of the canton of Doguérawa. Since 2011, the rural community no longer belongs to the Birni-N'Konni department , but to the newly created Malbaza department. After a meningitis epidemic in 2015 with 358 deaths nationwide, thousands of people were vaccinated against the disease in the following year, with Malbaza being one of the centers of action of the Ministry of Health with almost 13,000 vaccinations, along with Gounfara , Koutoukalé and Niamey .
population
At the 2001 census, Malbaza had 74,076 inhabitants. At the 2012 census, the population was 114,432.
politics
In the local elections in July 2004, Assoumane Hamani ( PNDS-Tarayya ) was elected mayor. On April 15, 2010, the Council of Ministers appointed Abatcha Mai Manga as Administrator ( Administrateur Délégué ) of the municipality and Omar Diamballa as Head of the Administrative Post ( Chef de poste administratif ) of Malbaza.
Culture and sights
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The Salewa Grand Mosque is a Friday mosque built in 1989 in the village of Salewa in the municipality of Malbaza. The architect of the building was Falké Barmou , who died in 2002 and was an autodidact. The builder was Elhadj Habou, with whom Falké Barmou also worked on other construction projects. The Great Mosque of Salewa is next to the Great Mosque of Yama in Badaguichiri one of two mosques in 2006, the UNESCO proposal Nigerien Ministry of Culture, the mosques in the territory of the region submitted Tahoua in the list of World Heritage take, be named.
Economy and Infrastructure
There is an important cement plant in the rural community: the Société Nigérienne de Cimenterie (SNC) was founded in 1963 and privatized in 1998. There is a cattle market in the village of Guidan Ider. The market day is Tuesday. National Road 1 runs through Malbaza and is part of the international Dakar-N'Djamena Highway . The community is located in the narrow zone along the border with Nigeria , which extends from Tounouga in the west to Malawa in the east and is used in irrigation farming for cash crops .
Personalities
- Aliou Mahamidou (1947–1996), General Director of the Malbaza cement plant, Prime Minister Niger from 1990 to 1991
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 .
- ↑ Répertoire National des localites (ReNaLoc). (RAR) Institut National de la Statistique de la République du Niger, July 2014, pp. 374–377 , accessed on August 7, 2015 (French).
- ↑ 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]).
- ^ Omar H. Saley: Le Niger prend des mesures de riposte contre la méningite. In: Bamada.net. March 7, 2016, accessed October 26, 2018 (French).
- ^ 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 May 1, 2014 (French).
- ^ Maires du PNDS. (PDF) PNDS-Tarayya , archived from the original on December 2, 2013 ; accessed on February 14, 2018 (French).
- ^ Conseil des ministres du Niger on 15 avril 2010. In: Temoust.org. April 16, 2010, archived from the original on April 18, 2010 ; accessed on February 14, 2018 (French).
- ↑ entry to Les mosquées en terre de la région de Tahoua in the Tentative List for World Heritage in French , accessed on 5 March 2012 found.
- ↑ Katharine Murison (ed.): Africa South of the Sahara 2004 . Europa Publications, London 2003, ISBN 1-85743-183-9 , p. 815.
- ^ 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).
- ^ 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.
