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Sabon-Guida rural community
Sabon-Guida rural community
Coordinates	13 ° 56 '  N , 5 ° 54'  E Coordinates: 13 ° 56 '  N , 5 ° 54'  E
Basic data
Country	Niger
region	Tahoua
department	Madaoua
surface	749 km²
Residents	103,232 (2012)
density	137.8  Ew. / km²
politics
mayor	Idi Tanko (2004)
Political party	PNDS Tarayya

Sabon-Guida is a rural municipality in the department of Madaoua in Niger .

geography

Sabon-Guida lies at the transition from the large Sudan to the Sahel zone and borders the neighboring state of Nigeria in the south . The neighboring communities in Niger are Doguérawa in the west, Galma Koudawatché in the northwest, Madaoua in the northeast and Bangui in the east. The Tarka Valley , which is around 300 kilometers long and stretches from the Tanout department in Niger to Nigeria, runs through Sabon-Guida in a north-south direction . The municipality is divided into 37 administrative villages, 14 traditional villages, 68 hamlets and a camp. The main town of the rural community is Sabon-Guida, consisting of the administrative villages Sabon Guida I, Sabon Guida II and Sabon Guida III.

history

The cultivation of onions began in Sabon-Guida in the 1950s, spreading from here over large parts of the Tahoua region and playing an important role in the economy and in the cultural self-image of the region. The well-known onion variety Violet de Galmi , which is named after the village of Galmi in the neighboring municipality of Doguérawa, from where it came into supraregional trade, has its origins in Sabon-Guida.

The rural community Sabon-Guida emerged as an administrative unit in 2002 during a nationwide administrative reform from part of the canton of Madaoua.

population

At the 2001 census, Sabon-Guida had 62,024 inhabitants. At the 2012 census, the population was 103,232. Around two thirds of the population are Hausa , around one third Tuareg . There is also a small minority of the Fulbe .

politics

In the local elections in July 2004, Idi Tanko ( PNDS-Tarayya ) was elected mayor.

Economy and Infrastructure

The community is located in the narrow zone along the border with Nigeria, which extends from Tounouga in the west to Malawa in the east and is used in irrigation farming for cash crops . In addition to agriculture, livestock is the most important branch of the population. There is informal trade with neighboring Nigeria . Gypsum and lime are mined at several deposits. The health centers in Sabon-Guida do not cover the entire community area, which is why some of the population has to switch to the district hospital in Madaoua. There are 42 primary schools and one secondary school in the main town.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Comité Interministériel de Pilotage de la Stratégie de Développement Rural Secrétariat Exécutif: Le Zonage Agro-écologique du NIGER . Niamey 2004 ( online version ; PDF; 411 kB), pp. 8–9.
2. ^ Répertoire National des Communes (RENACOM) . Institut National de la Statistique website, accessed January 22, 2011.
3. ^ Republic of Niger: Loi n ° 2002-014 du 11 JUIN 2002 portant création des communes et fixant le nom de leurs chefs-lieux .
4. ↑ L'histoire de l'oignon - témoignages de deux pionniers de la filière (PDF; 319 kB). SNVworld website, accessed April 8, 2012.
5. ^ 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.
6. ↑ 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). 
7. ↑ ^{a b} Report on the commune rurale de Sabon Guida . In: Le Magazine de l'ONG RAIL . No. 1, November 2008 ( online version ( Memento of the original from May 2, 2014 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 notice. ) , Pp. 14-15. 
8. ^ Maires du PNDS. (PDF) PNDS-Tarayya , archived from the original on December 2, 2013 ; accessed on February 14, 2018 (French). 
9. ^ 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.