Ourno

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Rural municipality of Ourno
Rural community of Ourno (Niger)
Rural municipality of Ourno
Rural municipality of Ourno
Coordinates 14 ° 18 ′  N , 6 ° 27 ′  E Coordinates: 14 ° 18 ′  N , 6 ° 27 ′  E
Basic data
Country Niger

region

Tahoua
department Madaoua
ISO 3166-2 NE-5
Residents 98,769 (2012)
politics
mayor Hadjia Gomma Idi (2004)
Political party PNDS Tarayya

Ourno is a rural municipality in the Madaoua department in Niger .

geography

Ourno is in the Sahel . The neighboring communities are Karofane in the north, Adjékoria in the northeast, Dan-Goulbi in the southeast, Bangui in the southwest and Madaoua in the west. The municipality is divided into 75 administrative villages and 92 hamlets. The main town of the rural municipality is the administrative village of Ourno.

history

The rural community of Ourno emerged from part of the canton of Madaoua in 2002 as part of a nationwide administrative reform.

population

At the 2001 census, Ourno had 51,160 inhabitants. At the 2012 census, the population was 98,769.

politics

Hadjia Gomma Idi ( PNDS-Tarayya ) was elected mayor in the local elections in July 2004 .

Culture and sights

In the municipality of Ourno lies the widely visible hill country of Doutsin Zana (also: Doutchi Zana), at the highest point of which there is a sacrificial place and a stone mosque commissioned by Usman dan Fodio .

Economy and Infrastructure

The community lies at the transition from the zone of rain-fed farming in the north to the zone of irrigated farming in the south. There is a cattle market in Ourno. The market day is Sunday.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Répertoire National des Communes (RENACOM) . 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. ^ 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.
  4. ↑ 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 May 1, 2014 (French).
  5. ^ Maires du PNDS. (PDF) PNDS-Tarayya , archived from the original on December 2, 2013 ; accessed on February 14, 2018 (French).
  6. ↑ Présentation de Tahoua, région phare de la sixième édition du SAFEM 2009 ( Memento of the original of July 14, 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. (PDF; 887 kB). P. 9, SAFEM website , accessed on March 5, 2012. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.safem.info
  7. ^ 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
  8. ^ 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).