Ngara (District)

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Ngara District
Location of the Ngara district in Tanzania
Location of the Ngara district in Tanzania
Basic data
Country Tanzania
region Kagera
surface 3744 km²
Residents 320,056 (2012)
density 85 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166-2 TZ-05

Coordinates: 2 ° 38 ′  S , 30 ° 27 ′  E

Ngara is a district in the Kagera region in northwestern Tanzania with the administrative center in the city of the same name, Ngara . The district is bordered by the Karagwe district to the north, the Biharamulo district to the east and the Kigoma region to the southeast . in the southwest on Burundi and in the northwest on Rwanda .

Location of the Ngara district in the Kagera region.

geography

Ngara has an area of ​​3744 square kilometers and around 320,000 inhabitants (as of 2012). The district is located on a highland at around 1800 meters above sea level. River valleys that are around 1300 meters high are embedded in it. In the west, the land in Mount Shyunga rises up to 2100 meters above sea level. The largest river is the Ruvuvu , which flows northeast and flows into the Kagera . The district has two rainy seasons, the autumn rains from September to December and the spring rains from February to May. The annual rainfall averages 1,400 millimeters in the higher elevations and 800 millimeters in the lowlands. The average temperature for the southern zone is 17 degrees Celsius, otherwise up to 25 degrees Celsius. The city of Kagera is 1,800 meters above sea level and has a mild climate, Cwb according to the effective climate classification .

history

In the area of ​​what is now the city of Ngara, there was a meeting place under a very large tree. This place was called "Mnyinya Ngara" in the language of the Hangaza, which means "big tree". The German occupiers could not pronounce this and called the place "Ngara". The district in its current form was established in 1984.

Administrative division

Ngara is divided into four divisions:

division surface

km 2

Number of villages
Nyamiaga 1251 21st
Murusagamba 533 9
Kanazi 900 26th
Rulenge 1032 19th

The district consists of twenty districts (Wards, as of 2012):

  • Rusumo
  • Nyakisasa
  • Rulenge
  • Keza
  • Murusagamba
  • Muganza
  • Bugarama
  • Bukiriro
  • Kabanga
  • Mabawe
  • Kanazi
  • Mugoma
  • Kirushya
  • Ntobeye
  • Nyamiyaga
  • Ngara Mjini
  • Kibimba
  • Mbuba
  • Murukulazo
  • Kasulo

population

The largest ethnic groups in the district are the Wahangaza and the Washubi. The official languages ​​Swahili and English are used only to a limited extent, mostly the local languages ​​KIshubi and KIhangaza, which are similar to Rundi and Kinyarwanda , the languages ​​in Rwanda and Burundi.

Facilities and services

  • Education: There are 115 state and five private elementary schools in the district. The state schools have a teacher-student ratio of 1:46 (as of 2019). Of the 29 secondary schools, 23 are run by the state and six are privately run (as of 2016).
  • Health: There are three hospitals, five health centers and 52 pharmacies in Ngara. There are 60,000 patients for every doctor. The leading cause of death is forty percent malaria. Of around 1400 people who were tested for HIV, 24 were positive, that is 1.7 percent (as of 2015).
  • Water: In 2015, half of the population was supplied with safe and clean water.

Economy and Infrastructure

  • Agriculture: Around 95 percent of the population live from agriculture. The main crops are coffee, bananas, cassava, corn, beans, millet and avocado. The largest areas under cultivation were bananas and cassava, the highest yields were bananas and corn (as of 2015). In 2012, more than half of the households also owned farm animals. Goats and poultry were mainly kept.
  • Forestry: Over 100,000 hectares of the district area are covered by forest. This includes three reserves:
    • Goyagoya Forest Reserve with 1400 hectares,
    • Burigi Game Reserve, where the portion of Ngara is 13,500 hectares,
    • Kimisi Game Reserve with 37,000 hectares in the district.
  • Trade: Because of the geographic location there is also trade with Burundi and Rwanda.
  • Roads: The T3 national roads to Rwanda and the T11 to Burundi run through the district. There are also 150 kilometers of district roads, most of which are in good condition, and 500 kilometers of feeder roads, half of which are easily passable (as of 2015).

politics

A district council is elected every 5 years in the district. In the 2015 election, all 30 seats went to the “Party of Revolution” ( CCM ). Erick Nkilamachumu chairs the meeting.Template: future / in 4 years

Attractions

  • Burigi and Kimisi game reserves: In the north, the district has a share in the Burigi and Kimisi game reserves. Established in 1980, the Burigi Game Reserve has a diverse fauna consisting of hippos, elephants, sitatungas , impalas, lions, elands, oribis, waterbuck and thirty species of birds. The government of Tanzania plans to convert these game reserves into national parks.

Others

  • Refugees: As of 1993, several hundred thousand refugees came from Burundi and in 1994 also from Rwanda. Several refugee camps were set up, the largest in Benaco for 200,000 people from Rwanda in May 1994. In 1996 hundreds of thousands of refugees were forced to return and the large camps were closed. People from Burundi in particular stayed in the district permanently. In July 2000, 100,000 refugees from Burundi and 20,000 from Rwanda were living in Ngara.
  • Rulenge-Ngara is a Roman Catholic diocese based in Rulenge . The diocese covers an area of ​​13,000 square kilometers with a million inhabitants, of which about a third are Catholics.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 18. Kagera Regional Profile. (PDF) The United Republic of Tanzania, March 2016, p. 16 , accessed on May 8, 2020 .
  2. ^ Maps of the World. Russian Army Maps, S. Map 500k - xa36-1 , accessed May 8, 2020 (Russian).
  3. ↑ Utalii | Ngara District Council. Retrieved May 10, 2020 .
  4. ↑ a b c Ngara District Council | History. Retrieved May 8, 2020 (Swahili).
  5. ↑ Ngara climate: Average Temperature, weather by month, Ngara weather averages - Climate-Data.org. Retrieved May 10, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Strategic Plan 2016 / 17–2020 / 21. (PDF) Ngara District Council, September 2017, p. 20 , accessed on May 10, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Strategic Plan 2016 / 17–2020 / 21. (PDF) Ngara District Council, September 2017, p. 17 , accessed on May 10, 2020 .
  8. ↑ 2012 Population and Housing Census. (PDF) National Bureau of Statistics and Ministry of Finance, March 2013, p. 168 , accessed on May 8, 2020 .
  9. ↑ a b Strategic Plan 2016 / 17–2020 / 21. (PDF) Ngara District Council, September 2017, p. 15 , accessed on May 10, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Takwimu. Retrieved May 10, 2020 (English).
  11. ↑ Strategic Plan 2016 / 17–2020 / 21. (PDF) Ngara District Council, September 2017, p. 58 , accessed on May 10, 2020 .
  12. ↑ Strategic Plan 2016 / 17–2020 / 21. (PDF) Ngara District Council, September 2017, pp. 24–25, 27 , 29 , accessed on May 10, 2020 .
  13. ↑ Strategic Plan 2016 / 17–2020 / 21. (PDF) Ngara District Council, September 2017, pp. 47, 50 , accessed on May 10, 2020 .
  14. ↑ Strategic Plan 2016 / 17–2020 / 21. (PDF) Ngara District Council, September 2017, pp. 33–34 , accessed on May 11, 2020 .
  15. ↑ 18. Kagera Regional Profile. (PDF) The United Republic of Tanzania, March 2016, pp. 132, 134 , accessed on May 10, 2020 .
  16. ↑ Strategic Plan 2016 / 17–2020 / 21. (PDF) Ngara District Council, September 2017, p. 74 , accessed on May 10, 2020 .
  17. ↑ Biashara | Economy. Retrieved May 10, 2020 (Swahili).
  18. ^ Tanzania Trunk Road Network. Retrieved May 10, 2020 .
  19. ↑ Strategic Plan 2016 / 17–2020 / 21. (PDF) Ngara District Council, September 2017, p. 77 , accessed on May 10, 2020 .
  20. ↑ Siegfried Schröder and Elke Kuhne: Elections in Tanzania 2015. (PDF) Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, November 9, 2015, p. 3 , accessed on May 8, 2020 .
  21. ↑ Strategic Plan 2016 / 17–2020 / 21. (PDF) Ngara District Council, September 2017, p. 88 , accessed on May 10, 2020 .
  22. ↑ Mwanzo. Retrieved May 10, 2020 (English).
  23. ↑ Ngara. GoogleMaps, accessed May 10, 2020 (de-US).
  24. ↑ Tanzania in Figures 2018. (PDF) National Bureau of Statistics, June 2019, p. 9 , accessed on May 10, 2020 .
  25. ↑ Burigi Game Reserve | Caribou East Africa. Retrieved May 11, 2020 (American English).
  26. ↑ TANZANIA: Five game reserves officially transformed into national parks. February 28, 2019, accessed May 11, 2020 (American English).
  27. ↑ Tanzania: increase in Rwandan arrivals in Ngara. United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, July 21, 2000, accessed May 11, 2020 .
  28. ^ Diocese of Rulenge – Ngara, Tanzania. Retrieved May 11, 2020 .