Sanam (Niger)
| Rural community of Sanam | |||
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| Coordinates | 14 ° 50 ′ N , 3 ° 55 ′ E | ||
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| Country | Niger | ||
| Tillabéri | |||
| department | Abala | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | NE-6 | ||
| Residents | 57,662 (2010) | ||
Sanam is a rural municipality in the department of Abala in Niger .
geography
Sanam is in the Sahel . The neighboring communities are Abala in the north and west, Tébaram in the east and Kourfeye Center in the south. The municipality is divided into 26 administrative villages, 14 traditional villages, 62 hamlets, two camps and three water points. The main town of the rural community is the administrative village of Sanam.
history
The rural community of Sanam was created as an administrative unit during a state-wide administrative reform in 2002. Sanam were separated from the canton of Kourfey. Since 2011, Sanam no longer belongs to the Filingué department , but to the newly founded Abala department.
population
At the 2001 census, Sanam had 42,568 residents. For 2010, 57,662 inhabitants were calculated. More than 90% of the population belong to the Hausa ethnic group . Tuareg , Fulbe and Zarma also live in the community.
Around 80% of the residents of Sanam were classified as poor or very poor in a 2011 study by the French non-governmental organization ACTED. More than 81% of the population had no access to latrines in the vicinity.
Culture and sights
The Sanam Mosque was built during Ramadan in 1998 . The construction time was only about 45 days. The mosque was planned by El Hadj Abou Moussa, a student of the architect Falké Barmou .
Economy and Infrastructure
The community is located in a zone where agropastoralism is practiced. The national road 25 runs through Sanam and connects the place with the neighboring communities Abala and Tébaram.
literature
- Ousmane Kindo Djibo: Proposition d'un plan d'aménagement et de gestion de la mare de Sanam . Faculté d'Agronomie, Université Abdou Moumouni de Niamey, Niamey 2009.
Individual evidence
- ^ Répertoire National des Communes (RENACOM) . Institut National de la Statistique website, accessed January 22, 2011.
- ^ Republic of Niger: Republic of Niger Loi n ° 2002-014 du 11 JUIN 2002 portant création des communes et fixant le nom de leurs chefs-lieux. Retrieved January 9, 2019 .
- ↑ Une nouvelle loi sur le redécoupage administratif . In: L'Arbre à Palabres . No. 13 , August 11, 2011, p. 2 ( PDF file [accessed January 28, 2014]).
- ^ 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.
- ↑ http://www.france-niger.com/commune-rurale-de-sanam (link not available)
- ^ Départements de Tillabéri, Ouallam et Filingué, Region of Tillabéri. Evaluation of the Humanitarian Situation . Agence d'aide à la coopération technique et au développement (ACTED), Paris 2011 ( online version ; PDF; 324 kB).
- ↑ James Morris, Suzanne Preston Blier: West African Adobe. In: ArchitectureWeek. April 14, 2004, accessed September 8, 2018 .
- ^ 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.
