N1 (Niger)

	Template: Infobox high-ranking street / maintenance / NE-N
	N1 in Niger
	Basic data
Operator:	Republic of Niger
Start of the street:	Labbézanga
End of street:	N'Guigmi
Overall length:	1737 km
Requirement for use:	no
	N1 in Kouré

The N1 or RN1 is a trunk road ( French route national , "national road") in Niger , which begins at Labbézanga and ends in N'Guigmi . It is 1737 kilometers long.

Status

The nickname of the N1 is Route de l'Unité ("Road of Unity"). It connects the west dominated by Zarma and Songhai with the east of the country dominated by Hausa . It runs through seven of eight regions of Niger (with the exception of Agadez in the north) and through six regional capitals , namely Diffa , Dosso , Maradi , Tillabéri , Zinder and Niamey.

In the system of the Trans-African Highways , the N1 between Niamey and Maradi is part of the Dakar-N'Djamena Highway .

The section of the N1 between Alléla and Dosso belongs to the Route de l'Uranium ("uranium road"), via which the uranium produced by Arlit is brought to the state border with Benin . The destination of road transport is the port of Cotonou in Benin.

history

N1 in N'Dounga

Construction of the road began under President Hamani Diori , who was in office from 1960 to 1974 . Canada funded the construction of the last missing section between Diffa and N'Guigmi. The N1 opened on September 21, 1976. The opening ceremony took place in Gouré .

Under President Mamadou Tandja , who came from the east of Niger, the increasingly dilapidated eastern section of the route between Zinder and N'Guigmi was rehabilitated at the end of the 2000s.

Intersections

number	place	highway
1	Dosso	N7 , N14
2	Bolbol	N3
3	cinder	N17

literature

Peter Chilson: Riding the Demon. On the Road in West Africa . The University of Georgia Press, Athens / London 1999, ISBN 978-0-8203-4748-6 .
Adeline Masquelier : Road Mythographies. Space, Mobility, and the Historical Imagination in Postcolonial Niger . In: American Ethnologist . Vol. 29, No. 4 , 2002, ISSN 0094-0496 , p. 829-856 .

Web links

Route national 1 on OpenStreetMap on OpenStreetMap
N1 (Niger) on Wegenwiki (Dutch)

Individual evidence

^ N1 on Google Maps, accessed November 22, 2017.
^ Review of the Implementation Status of the Trans-African Highways and the Missing Links. Volume 2: Description of Corridors. Final report. (PDF) The African Development Bank, August 14, 2003, p. 126 , accessed on November 23, 2017 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c Abdourahmane Idrissa, Samuel Decalo: Historical Dictionary of Niger . 4th edition. Scarecrow, Plymouth 2012, ISBN 978-0-8108-6094-0 , pp. 390 .
^ ^A ^b Abdourahmane Idrissa, Samuel Decalo: Historical Dictionary of Niger . 4th edition. Scarecrow, Plymouth 2012, ISBN 978-0-8108-6094-0 , pp. xxxiv .

[1] N1 on Google Maps, accessed November 22, 2017.

[2] Review of the Implementation Status of the Trans-African Highways and the Missing Links. Volume 2: Description of Corridors. Final report. (PDF) The African Development Bank, August 14, 2003, p. 126 , accessed on November 23, 2017 .

[Idrissa_390-3] Abdourahmane Idrissa, Samuel Decalo: Historical Dictionary of Niger . 4th edition. Scarecrow, Plymouth 2012, ISBN 978-0-8108-6094-0 , pp. 390 .

[Idrissa_xxxiv-4] A ^b Abdourahmane Idrissa, Samuel Decalo: Historical Dictionary of Niger . 4th edition. Scarecrow, Plymouth 2012, ISBN 978-0-8108-6094-0 , pp. xxxiv .