Malicounda
| Malicounda | |||
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| Coordinates | 14 ° 28 ′ N , 16 ° 58 ′ W | ||
| Basic data | |||
| Country | Senegal | ||
| Thiès | |||
| Department | Mbour | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | SN-TH | ||
| height | 12 m | ||
| surface | 124 km² | ||
| Residents | 61,031 (2013) | ||
| density | 492.2 Ew. / km² | ||
| politics | |||
| mayor | Thièwoulé Cissokho (2009) | ||
Malicounda is part of the name of several neighboring villages and the name of a rural community (Communauté rurale) in the Mbour département of the Thiès region , located in western Senegal . With 61,031 inhabitants in the 2013 census, Malicounda is the second largest rural community in Senegal after the pilgrim metropolis Touba .
Geographical location
Malicounda is located, 60 kilometers southeast of Dakar , in the center of the Mbour department and includes the eastern and southern hinterland of the Mbour department prefecture and the seaside resort of Saly Portudal . Neighboring in the north are the rural municipality of Sindia and in the east the rural municipalities of Sandiara and Nguéniène . It is 35 kilometers to the north to the regional prefecture of Thiès .
The rural community comprises 22 villages over an area of 124 km². As of 2008, these are the villages:
Falokh Sérère, Falokh Wolof, Fandane Sérère, Fandane Wolof, Keur Balla Lô, Malicounda Bambara, Malicounda Sérère, Malicounda Wolof, Mballing, Mboulème, Nianing , Pointe Sarène, Roff, Sidibougou, Sintiou Mbadane, Sinthbarièou Mbadane , Takhoum Sérère, Takhoum Wolof, Warang Sérère and Warang Socé.
Along the Petite-Côte, the coastal towns of Mballing, Warang, Nianing and Pointe Sarène line up in the direction of Joal-Fadiouth to the south-east of Mbour .
population
As of 2002, the population of the rural community of Malicounda consists of four main ethnic groups:
history
The rural community of Malicounda was created by decree of July 24, 1972.
In 2008 the municipal council (conseil rural) was dissolved by decree due to serious violations of the law and replaced by a special state delegation. In Malicounda, contrary to the regulations for public procurement, contracts were always awarded directly without competition. Land use planning was also disastrous, and the President even sold land with the assistance of councilors. This situation testified to a standstill in local government, as well as incompetence and corruption.
During this communal political turbulence in 2008, the seaside resort of Saly Portudal , which had since grown rapidly, was separated from the rural community and given the legal status of a commune (city).
After new elections for the local council (conseil rural) on March 22, 2009, the latter elected Thièwoulé Cissokho from among its members as President de Communauté Rurale Malicounda for five years .
Transport and infrastructure
Malicounda is connected to Senegal's trunk road network by the N 1 . It connects the rural community to the northwest with the major cities of the Dakar metropolitan area , to the south with Mbour and to the east with Fatick , Kaolack , Birkelane , Kaffrine , Malem Hodar , Koumpentoum and Tambacounda and with the Malian border at Kidira . In addition, in the Malicounda area, there is a junction for the Autoroute 2 toll road , which leads here from Dakar-Blaise Diagne International Airport .
economy
The resorts on the seaside coast have attracted major tourism investors . On February 17, opened in 1973 NUR Touristic in Nianing with the Club Aldiana Senegal in a three-kilometer stretch of beach for 15 million marks a holiday complex with more than 500 beds as a competing offer to the French providers Club Med at Cap Skirring . The opening was linked to a charter flight offered once a week all year round between Frankfurt am Main Airport and Dakar. Over the years, however, the facility was run down and closed in early 2007.
The second large hotel complex, Domaine de Nianing , also ceased operations in March 2015, as did several small hotels that only exist as ruins. The consequences for the region are grave. Several thousand jobs were lost. A well-announced partial takeover of the Aldiana complex by Club Med with corresponding funding commitments was not followed by any action. There is still no solution in sight for the littering of the sea and the beach, which is detrimental to tourism , which is caused by the nearby city of Mbour.
The Centrale solaire Malicounda has been in operation near Autoroute 2 since November 2016 as a solar park with an installed capacity of 22 MW.
Town twinning
Since 2004, Malicounda has been related to the Breton port city of Melgven .
Personalities
- Ibrahima Thioub (* 1955), Senegalese historian and professor at the Université Cheikh Anta Diop (UCAD) in Dakar
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Spatial structure of the region TIES
- ^ Situation Géographique ( Memento of May 1, 2019 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Demography ( Memento from May 1, 2019 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ journal officiel de la république du Sénégal on 16 September 1972
- ↑ Décret n ° 2008-458 from 2 May 2008
- ↑ DECRET n ° 2008-748 du 10 juillet 2008, portant création de communes dans les régions de ... Thiès, ... ( Memento of 10 November 2017 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Aldiana is called in Senegal "The place where the happy live"
- ↑ The time of February 16, 1973: "Where the lucky ones live"
- ↑ Die Welt of June 12, 2007: Aldiana's first club is closed
- ↑ Helping hands Senegal: What has changed in Senegal since 2006?
- ↑ Helping hands Senegal: News autumn 2018
- ^ Inauguration d'une nouvelle centrale solaire à Malicounda par Macky Sall
- ↑ Historique de jumelage Melgven-Malicounda
