SONUCI (Niamey)

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Neighborhood
SONUCI
Coordinates 13 ° 33 '  N , 2 ° 4'  E Coordinates: 13 ° 33 '  N , 2 ° 4'  E
Basic data
Country Niger

Capital District

Niamey
Arrondissement Niamey I
ISO 3166-2 NE-8
Residents 16,608 (2012)

SONUCI (also: Cité Sonuci , Koira Kano Nord SONUCI ) is a district ( French : quartier ) in the Arrondissement Niamey I of the city of Niamey in Niger .

geography

SONUCI is located on National Road 1 to the west of the Niamey urban area. The neighboring settlements include Yantala Haut in the east, Koira Kano in the south and Koubia in the west. The district is located on a plateau with a layer of sand that is less than 2.5 meters deep in the north and more than 2.5 meters in the south. There are insufficient sewage systems and the district is at risk of flooding when it rains heavily. SONUCI is one of the richer residential areas of Niamey.

history

The area was still an undeveloped and treeless arable area in the 1970s. The district emerged after 1989. The state sold most of the land here to the Société Nigérienne d'Urbanisme et de Construction Immobilière (SONUCI). The state company SONUCI was founded to create living space and to counteract the uncontrolled property speculation that began in the 1950s in districts such as Goudel and Yantala . In the district named after her, SONUCI had the water and electricity infrastructure built and then sold the land to the highest bidder. The buyers included the Nigerien elite, including lawyers, officers and high politicians as well as personalities from the trade and uranium and gold mining.

population

At the 2012 census, SONUCI had 16,608 inhabitants living in 2,937 households.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b National Repertoire des Localités (ReNaLoc). (RAR) Institut National de la Statistique de la République du Niger, July 2014, p. 715 , accessed on August 7, 2015 (French).
  2. ↑ Hamadou Issaka, Dominique Badariotti: Les inondations à Niamey, enjeux autour d'un phenomène complexe . In: Cahiers d'Outre-Mer . No. 263 , September 2013, p. 384 ( journals.openedition.org [accessed April 21, 2019]).
  3. ↑ Laouali Souleymane: Inondations in certains quartiers de la ville de Niamey: La menace est réelle! In: Le Sahel . July 14, 2017, accessed June 9, 2019 (French).
  4. ↑ République du Niger. Niamey et ses environs. Echelle 1: 20000 . Map. Institut Géographique National, Paris 1978 ( esdac.jrc.ec.europa.eu [PDF; accessed April 29, 2019]).
  5. ↑ Apollinaire Tini: La gestion des déchets solid ménagers à Niamey au Niger: essai pour une stratégie de gestion durable . Thèse de doctorat. Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon, Lyon 2003, p. 46 ( theses.insa-lyon.fr [PDF; accessed May 1, 2019]).
  6. ^ A b Hilary B. Hungerford: Water, Cities, and Bodies: A Relational Understanding of Niamey, Niger . Dissertation. University of Kansas, Lawrence 2012, pp. 118–119 ( kuscholarworks.ku.edu [PDF; accessed on May 10, 2019]).
  7. ↑ Kokou Henri Motcho: Niamey, Garin captan Salma ou l'histoire du peuplement de la ville de Niamey . In: Jérôme Aloko-N'Guessan, Amadou Diallo, Kokou Henri Motcho (eds.): Villes et organization de l'espace en Afrique . Karthala, Paris 2010, ISBN 978-2-8111-0339-2 , pp. 19-20 .