Sarkin Haoussa

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Sarkin Haoussa rural parish
Sarkin Haoussa rural community (Niger)
Sarkin Haoussa rural parish
Sarkin Haoussa rural parish
Coordinates 13 ° 51 '  N , 7 ° 35'  E Coordinates: 13 ° 51 '  N , 7 ° 35'  E
Basic data
Country Niger

region

Maradi
department Mayahi
ISO 3166-2 NE-4
Residents 76,312 (2012)

Sarkin Haoussa (also: Sarki Haoussa , Serké Haoussa , Serkin Haoussa , Sharken-Haoussa ) is a rural community in the Mayahi department in Niger .

geography

Sarkin Haoussa is located in the Sahel region . The neighboring communities are Attantané in the northwest, Mayahi in the northeast, Aguié in the southeast, Tchadoua in the south, Saé Saboua in the southwest and Maïyara in the west. The Wadi Goulbi N'Kaba runs on the border with Attantané . The municipality is divided into 56 administrative villages, 31 hamlets and 15 camps. The main town of the rural community is the administrative village of Sarkin Haoussa (also: Serkin Haoussa).

history

Before the arrival of the French at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, Sarkin Haoussa was part of the independent state of Gobir . In the 1960s, the market in the village of Dan Mairo was an important transshipment point for peanuts , Niger's most important export at the time. The rural community of Sarkin Haoussa emerged as an administrative unit in 2002 as part of a nationwide administrative reform from the southwestern part of the canton of Mayahi. The administrative village of Maïssakoni was affected by the flood disaster in West and Central Africa in 2010 : 154 villagers were classified as victims of the disaster.

population

At the 2001 census, Sarkin Haoussa had 54,438 residents. At the 2012 census, the population was 76,312.

Economy and Infrastructure

The community is located in a zone where rain-fed agriculture is practiced. National Road 19 runs through Sarkin Haoussa and connects the town with the neighboring communities of Mayahi and Tchadoua.

literature

  • Jean-Marie Karimou Ambouta: Caractérisation des sols du terroir villageois de Gakudi et de l'influence des pratiques de gestion de la fertilité sur leur évolution . Faculté d'Agronomie, Université Abdou Moumouni, Niamey 1996.
  • Abdoul-Matsalabi Batouré: Rôle et impact du Warrantage dans la sécurisation économique des producteurs ruraux. Cas de la Commune Rurale de Serké Haoussa, département de Mayahi . Mémoire. Center Régional d'Enseignement Spécialisé en Agriculture (CRESA), Niamey 2014.
  • Souley Issa: Etude de la distribution spatiale des sols à l'échelle du terroir villageois de Gakudi. Influence du mode d'exploitation et de la gestion de la fertilité . Faculté d'Agronomie, Université Abdou Moumouni, Niamey 1995.
  • Boubacar Yamba: L'évolution de la gestion de l'environnement au Sahel: l'exemple du terroir de Sharken-Haoussa (Maradi, Niger) . In: Singaravélou (ed.): Pratiques de gestion de l'environnement dans les pays tropicaux. VIe Journées de Géographie Tropicale du Comité National de Géographie, Commission Espaces Tropicaux et leur Développement. Talence, 6-8 September 1995 (=  Espaces tropicaux . No. 15 ). Dynamiques des Milieux et des Sociétés dans les Espaces Tropicaux (DYMSET) / Center de Recherches sur les Espaces Tropicaux (CRET), Talence 1997, ISBN 2-906621-28-5 , p. 276-286 .

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. ↑ Ogunsola John Igue, Kengne Fodouop, Jérôme Aloko-N'Guessan (ed.): Maîtrise de l'espace et développement en Afrique. Budget of the lieux . Karthala, Paris 2010, ISBN 978-2-8111-0264-7 , p. 239.
  4. ↑ Yves Péhaut: L'arachide au Niger (=  Études d'économie africaine Série Afrique noire. . No. 1 ). Pedone, Paris 1970, p. 87 .
  5. ↑ Situation des besoins des populations victimes d'inondations (2010) ( Memento of the original from October 16, 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. . Website of the Center d'Information et de Communication, published on September 23, 2010, accessed on March 31, 2012. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.cic.ne
  6. ^ 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. 55.
  7. ↑ 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 April 21, 2014 (French).
  8. ^ 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