Sassoumbroum

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Rural municipality of Sassoumbroum
Sassoumbroum rural community (Niger)
Rural municipality of Sassoumbroum
Rural municipality of Sassoumbroum
Coordinates 13 ° 7 '  N , 8 ° 29'  E Coordinates: 13 ° 7 '  N , 8 ° 29'  E
Basic data
Country Niger

region

cinder
department Magaria
ISO 3166-2 NE-7
Residents 55,354 (2010)

Sassoumbroum (also: Sassoumbouroum , Tsatsoumbroum ) is a rural community in the Magaria department in Niger .

geography

Sassoumbroum is located in the greater Sudan landscape and borders the neighboring state of Nigeria in the south and west . The neighboring communities in Niger are Dan-Barto , Kourni and Yaouri in the north and Kwaya and Yékoua in the east. The municipality is divided into 36 administrative villages, 34 traditional villages, 27 hamlets and 13 camps. The main town of the rural community is the administrative village of Sassoumbroum (also: Tsatsoumbroum). The Wadi Korama has its origin in the municipality .

history

Sassoumbroum developed into an economically important regional center in the 1920s. The rural community Sassoumbroum emerged as an administrative unit in 2002 as part of a nationwide administrative reform from the western part of the canton of Magaria.

population

At the 2001 census, Sassoumbroum had 40,769 inhabitants. For 2010, 55,354 inhabitants were calculated. In Sassoumbroum mainly arable Hausa and Fulbe who specialize in agropastoralism live .

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 .

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 http://www.case.ibimet.cnr.it/den/Documents/code_rural/cdrom/doc % 20pdf / Loi% 20N% B02002-14% 20cr% E9ation% 20des% 20communes.pdf (link not available)
  3. ↑ Edmond Séré de Rivières: Histoire du Niger . Berger-Levrault, Paris 1965, p. 251.
  4. ^ 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. 57.
  5. ↑ Ministère de l'élevage et des industries animales / République du Niger (ed.): La mobilité pastorale dans la Région de Zinder. Stratégies et dynamisme des sociétés pastorales . Niamey 2009 ( online version ( Memento of July 13, 2010 in the Internet Archive ); PDF; 11.3 MB), pp. 30 and 33.
  6. ^ Comprendre l'économie des ménages ruraux au Niger . Save the Children UK, London 2009 ( online version ( Memento from September 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ); PDF; 2.6 MB), p. 8.