Matankari

Matankari rural community
Matankari rural community
Coordinates	13 ° 46 ′  N , 4 ° 0 ′  E Coordinates: 13 ° 46 ′  N , 4 ° 0 ′  E
Basic data
Country	Niger
region	Dosso
department	Dogondoutchi
Residents	68,979 (2012)

Matankari is a rural municipality in the department of Dogondoutchi in Niger .

geography

Matankari belongs to the Sahel region . The neighboring communities are Soucoucoutane in the northwest, Dogonkiria in the northeast, Dan-Kassari in the southeast and the departmental capital Dogondoutchi in the southwest. The municipality is divided into 185 traditional villages, 19 administrative villages, nine hamlets, seven camps and a water point. The main town of the rural community is the administrative village of Matankari. The 4th degree of longitude runs along the western edge of the main town .

The large, periodically water-bearing dry valley Dallol Maouri runs west of the main town . The community is at high risk of flooding.

history

The place name Matankari comes from Mato n'Gari , which means "village of Mato". From 1767 to 1786, Mato was ruler of Aréoua , the Maouri Empire, a sub-group of the Hausa . The title of the rulers of Aréoua was serki n'Aréoua . Mato founded Matankari as his mansion. His successor Goga ruled from 1786 to 1803 and was able to successfully repel an attack by the Fulbe . Under Ousman, who ruled from 1803 to 1821, the Maouri were so weakened by famine that they no longer had to fight and flee from Matankari before the Fulbe. Ultimately, Ousman was able to keep the upper hand, but had to pay tribute to the Fulbe. His successor Gay-Va died in 1822 fighting as an ally of the Gobir Empire against the Sokoto Empire . According to Gay-Va, Gagara ruled from 1822 to 1849, who made peace with Sokoto. He was followed by Alissina from 1849 to 1861. He had to defend himself against attacks by the Tuareg from Imanan and in turn attacked the Aréoua province of Tibiri . However, Tibiri allied with the kingdom of Kebbi and Alissina was defeated and killed in battle. His successor Lefeda, who ruled from 1861 to 1873, had to deal with revolts in several villages in Aréoua, including Dogondoutchi. Ultimately, he had to abdicate in favor of Bagajié, who ruled in relative peace until 1901.

On March 27, 1899, Bagajié had to submit to the French mission Voulet-Chanoine . His successor was Koché, who ruled from 1901 to 1913. In 1903 the French established a military post in Matankari. When this military post was moved to the city of Dogondoutchi in 1906, the serki n'Aréoua was also forced to move his official residence to Dogondoutchi. Until 1972, only the major cities of Niamey , Maradi , Tahoua and Zinder had the status of an independent municipality in Niger . This year, Matankari was raised to parish at the same time as six other Nigerien towns. In the flood disaster in West and Central Africa in 2010 , 4,262 residents of Matankari were classified as disaster victims, more than any other municipality in the Dosso region.

population

At the 2001 census, Matankari had 57,646 inhabitants. At the 2012 census, the population was 68,979.

Economy and Infrastructure

The community is located in a zone where rain-fed agriculture is practiced. There is a cattle market in the village of Bagagi. The market day is Wednesday.

Personalities

• Dandi Abarchi (* 1942), officer, politician and diplomat
• Nouhou Bako (* 1944), officer
• Abdou Gaoh (1922–1992), politician
• Amadou Gaoh (1925–2015), politician
• Daddy Gaoh (1906–1973), politician

literature

• Adoumou Harouna: Développement de la culture de tomate pendant l'hivernage dans le département de Doutchi. Cas de la commune rurale de Matankari . Faculté d'Agronomie, Université Abdou Moumouni de Niamey, Niamey 2009.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 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. 
2. ^ Republic of Niger: Loi n ° 2002-014 du 11 JUIN 2002 portant création des communes et fixant le nom de leurs chefs-lieux .
3. ↑ M. Tiepolo, M. Ali, M. Bacci, S. Braccio, H. Issa, AZ Oumarou: Analyze du risque d'inondation dans les communes de la Région de Dosso au Niger, 1998-2016. (PDF) Projet ANADIA 2.0, report no. 5. Agence Italienne pour la Coopération au Développement, 2018, pp. 10 and 22 , accessed on April 26, 2018 (French). 
4. ^ ^{A b} Edmond Séré de Rivières: Histoire du Niger . Berger-Levrault, Paris 1965, pp. 172-173.
5. ↑ Edmond Séré de Rivières: Histoire du Niger . Berger-Levrault, Paris 1965, p. 206.
6. ↑ Jolijn Geels: Niger . Bradt, Chalfont St Peter 2006, ISBN 1-84162-152-8 , p. 139.
7. ↑ Historique de la decentralization au Niger ( Memento of the original of October 18, 2014 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 file; 91 kB). Website of the program nigéro-allemand de lutte contre la pauvreté dans les zones de Tillabéri et Tahoua-Nord, published May 2008, accessed on 21 January 2012. 
8. ↑ Situation des besoins des populations victimes d'inondations (2010) ( Memento of the original from October 16, 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. . Website of the Center d'Information et de Communication, published on September 23, 2010, accessed on March 31, 2012. 
9. ^ Institut Nationale de la Statistique du Niger (ed.): Annuaire statistique des cinquante ans d'indépendance du Niger . Niamey 2010 ( online version ; PDF file; 2.99 MB), p. 54.
10. ↑ 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 April 21, 2014 (French). 
11. ^ 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. 
12. ^ 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).