N'Gourti

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N'Gourti rural parish
Rural community of N'Gourti (Niger)
N'Gourti rural parish
N'Gourti rural parish
Coordinates 15 ° 20 ′  N , 13 ° 12 ′  E Coordinates: 15 ° 20 ′  N , 13 ° 12 ′  E
Basic data
Country Niger

region

Diffa
department N'Gourti
ISO 3166-2 NE-2
Residents 51,767 (2012)

N'Gourti (official spelling; also Ngourti ) is a rural community and the capital of the N'Gourti department of the same name in Niger .

geography

Agadem Oasis in N'Gourti (1986)
People at the village of Meleck in N'Gourti (2019)

N'Gourti is located in the south-east of the country in the northern Sahel zone and the Sahara desert . The average annual rainfall is less than five millimeters. In geological terms, the community is located in a Quaternary geological area. The small garrison of the Nigerien army, located in a lowland, is surrounded by high dunes.

The municipality is divided into 23 administrative villages, one traditional village, 16 hamlets, 21 camps and 118 water points. N'Gourti borders the neighboring state of Chad in the east . The neighboring communities in Niger are Bilma , Dirkou and Fachi in the north, N'Guigmi in the southeast, Kabléwa in the south, Foulatari in the southwest and Tesker in the west.

history

There are various contradicting legends about the founding of the place. The place name N'Gourti is derived from the Kanuri word n'gurtu , which means "hippopotamus".

In 1964, an administrative reform divided Niger into seven departments, the predecessors of the later regions, and 32 arrondissements, the predecessors of the later departments. N'Gourti was added to the newly created arrondissement N'Guigmi, but received the status of an administrative post ( poste administratif ) in the area of ​​the arrondissement. Administrative posts were special territorial units one level below the arrondissements, which were regarded as a kind of preliminary stage for a later conversion into a separate arrondissement.

The 1990 Dakar Rally led via N'Gourti. In 1998, the previous arrondissements of Nigers were converted into departments. The administrative post of N'Gourti was removed from the department of N'Guigmi in 2011 and raised to the department of N'Gourti.

population

In the drought year of 1984, the population of the place skyrocketed. At the 2001 census, N'Gourti had 21,045 residents. At the 2012 census, the population was 51,767. N'Gourti is a language border for the two languages ​​of the Tubu ethnic group : Tedaga is spoken to the north of the place and Dazaga to the south . The second largest ethnic group, after the Tubu, are Arabs who settled in the region from the middle of the 19th century, followed by the Fulbe . The Tubu, Arabs and Fulbe of N'Gourti have a predominantly nomadic way of life. In addition, minorities from Hausa and Zarma live in the community.

Economy and Infrastructure

Oil production in N'Gourti (2019)

Between the desert in the north and a narrow zone in the south where agropastoralism is practiced , pasture farming is the predominant livelihood. There is an important cattle market in N'Gourti. On May 18, 2000, after Bankilaré and Tchintabaraden, the third local citizen radio ( radio communautaire ) in the country went into operation in the capital . Oil has been produced around 100 kilometers north-west of N'Gourti since 2009.

literature

  • Mahamidou Aboubacar Attahirou: Dynamique locales et stratégies des acteurs autour de la rente pétrolière à N'gourti . Mémoire. Faculté des Lettres et Sciences Humaines, Université Abdou Moumouni de Niamey, Niamey 2013.
  • Hadiza Moussa: Le pouvoirs locaux à N'gourti. Etudes et Travaux du LASDEL n ° 12 . Laboratoire d'études et de recherches sur les dynamiques sociales et le développement local (LASDEL), Niamey / Parakou 2003 ( online version ; PDF; 335 kB). - also published in: Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan, Mahamam Tidjani Alou (ed.): Le pouvoirs locaux au Niger. Tome 1: À la veille de la decéntralisation . Karthala, Paris 2009, ISBN 978-2-8111-0306-4 , pp. 279-308.
  • Hadiza Moussa: Les pouvoirs locaux à N'gourti (2) (=  Etudes et Travaux du LASDEL . No. 60 ). LASDEL, Niamey / Parakou 2008.
  • Mountaka Souley: Couplage santé animale humaine, une alternative pour les zones pastorales. Cas de N'gourti . Faculté d'Agronomie, Université Abdou Moumouni de Niamey, Niamey 2007.

Web links

Commons : N'Gourti  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Website of the Institut Nationale de la Statistique du Niger: Annuaire statistique 2003-2007 (pdf; 1.2 MB), accessed on February 18, 2010.
  2. ↑ a b c d Hadiza Moussa: Le pouvoirs locaux à N'gourti. Etudes et Travaux du LASDEL n ° 12 . Laboratoire d'études et de recherches sur les dynamiques sociales et le développement local (LASDEL), Niamey / Parakou 2003 ( online version  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check Link according to the instructions and then remove this note .; PDF; 335 kB), pp. 7–8.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.lasdel.net  
  3. ↑ Thomas Krings : Sahel countries . WBG, Darmstadt 2006, ISBN 3-534-11860-X , p. 16.
  4. ^ Répertoire National des Communes (RENACOM) . Institut National de la Statistique website, accessed January 22, 2011.
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  8. ↑ 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]).
  9. ^ 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. 53.
  10. ↑ Presentation of the résultats globaux définitifs du Quatrième (4ème) Recensement Général de la Population et de l'Habitat (RGP / H) de 2012. (PDF file) Institut National de la Statistique, 2014, accessed on April 21, 2014 (French ).
  11. ↑ Jolijn Geels: Niger . Bradt, Chalfont St Peter 2006, ISBN 1-84162-152-8 , p. 30.
  12. ^ 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.savethechildren.org.uk
  13. ↑ Livelihoods Zoning “Plus” Activity In Niger ( Memento from September 28, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 2.5 MB). 27, Famine Early Warning Systems Network website, published August 2011, accessed January 19, 2012.
  14. ↑ La situation de la communication pour le développement au Niger (Etat des lieux). Tome 1. (PDF file; 461 kB) Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2003, p. 23 , accessed on November 1, 2019 (French).
  15. ^ Jean-Paul Labourdette, Dominique Auzias: Niger 2009 . Nouvelle édition de l'Université, Paris 2009, ISBN 2-7469-1640-1 , pp. 153 .