Ouallam
| Ouallam Municipality | |||
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| Coordinates | 14 ° 19 ′ N , 2 ° 5 ′ E | ||
| Basic data | |||
| Country | Niger | ||
| Tillabéri | |||
| department | Ouallam | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | NE-6 | ||
| surface | 1,784.4 km² | ||
| Residents | 66,798 (2010) | ||
| density | 37.4 Ew. / km² | ||
| politics | |||
| mayor | Djibo Maimouna Hassoumi (2012) | ||
Ouallam is a municipality and the capital of the Ouallam department of the same name in Niger .
geography
Ouallam is located in the southern Sahel . The neighboring communities are Tondikiwindi in the north, Dingazi in the east, Simiri in the south, Kourteye in the southwest and Sakoïra in the northwest. The municipality is divided into eleven districts, 35 administrative villages, seven traditional villages and 148 hamlets. The neighborhoods are Administratif, Gadama Windi, Gao Tchiré, Goroutché, Koira Tégui, Kongodabey, Mossi Windi, Niamassal, Soudjé, Tchemou Windi and Tribu Agala.
history
The city's name comes from the word willim , which means "forest". The area of Ouallam was once heavily forested, which changed drastically due to human interference and climatic changes. The sterility of the soil repeatedly led to famine and mass emigration.
population
At the 1977 census, Ouallam had 3,712 people, at the 1988 census 6,229 people and at the 2001 census 7,142 people. For the year 2010, after an expansion of the municipal area to include parts of the dissolved canton of Ouallam, 66,798 inhabitants were calculated. The most important ethnic group in the city are the Zarma . The Fulbe and Tuaregs live particularly in the north and northwest of the urban area , who move to Tondikiwindi in search of pastureland in the rainy season.
Economy and Infrastructure
The city is located in a zone in which mainly rain-fed agriculture is practiced. Labor migration abroad is also of economic importance . At the Ouallam market, cowpeas and grain are traded to the Nigerien capital Niamey as well as Benin and Nigeria . The city is the seat of a Tribunal d'Instance, one of the country's 30 civil courts , which are below the ten civil courts of the first instance (Tribunal de Grande Instance). National Road 24 runs through Ouallam and connects the city with Niamey and the state border with Mali near Banibangou . Ouallam has a civil airport with an unpaved runway, Ouallam Airport ( ICAO code : DRRU).
Parish partnership
Ouallam has a municipal partnership with the Communauté d'agglomération du Val d'Orge , an association of the French municipalities Brétigny-sur-Orge , Fleury-Mérogis , Le Plessis-Pâté , Leuville-sur-Orge , Longpont-sur-Orge , Morsang- sur-Orge , Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois , Saint-Michel-sur-Orge , Villemoisson-sur-Orge and Villiers-sur-Orge .
literature
- Paul Combasset: Ouallam: petit center urbain du Zarmaganda, Niger . Thesis, Université scientifique et médicale de Grenoble 1984.
- Abraham Issaka: Les déterminants de l'insécurité alimentaire des ménages ruraux. Cas des Villages de Sargane et Tolkoboye in the commune urbaine de Ouallam . Faculté d'Agronomie, Université Abdou Moumouni de Niamey, Niamey 2012.
- Haouaou Issaka Abdou: Analysis of the causes profondes de la malnutrition dans la commune urbaine de Ouallam . Faculté d'Agronomie, Université Abdou Moumouni de Niamey, Niamey 2012.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Répertoire National des Communes (RENACOM) . Institut National de la Statistique website, accessed November 8, 2010.
- ↑ a b Présentation de la commune de Ouallam ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Website of the ANIYA Coopération Décentralisée Niger-France, accessed on January 27, 2011.
- ↑ bevoelkerungsstatistik.de: Page no longer available , search in web archives: Ouallam , accessed on January 23, 2012.
- ^ 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. 56.
- ^ 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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Bachir Talfi: Note sur l'organization judiciaire . Nigerien Ministry of Justice website, accessed September 24, 2012.
- ↑ Airports in Niger . Aircraft Charter World website, accessed January 23, 2012.
- ^ Jean-Claude Peyronnet: La solidarité internationale à l'échelle des territoires: état des lieux et perspectives. Annexe 5: Document de travail de l'ambassade de France au Niger sur les coopérations décentralisées dans ce pays. Senate of the French Republic, November 13, 2012, accessed July 6, 2013 (French).
- ↑ L'agglo du val d'Orge. (No longer available online.) Communauté d'agglomération du Val d'Orge, archived from the original on July 19, 2013 ; Retrieved July 6, 2013 (French). 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.
