Simiri

Simiri rural community
Simiri rural community
Coordinates	14 ° 9 '  N , 2 ° 8'  E Coordinates: 14 ° 9 '  N , 2 ° 8'  E
Basic data
Country	Niger
region	Tillabéri
department	Ouallam
Residents	101,627 (2010)

Simiri is a rural municipality in the department of Ouallam in Niger .

geography

Simiri is located in the southern Sahel region . The neighboring communities are Ouallam in the north, Dingazi in the northeast, Tondikandia in the east, Tagazar in the southeast, Hamdallaye in the south, Karma in the southwest and Kourteye in the west. The municipality is divided into 73 administrative villages, twelve traditional villages, 379 hamlets and twelve camps. The main town of the rural community is the village of Simiri.

history

Simiri was ruled by Kallé leaders in the 19th century . Kallé are a subgroup of the Zarma . The rural community of Simiri emerged from the canton of Simiri in 2002 as part of a nationwide administrative reform. In 2008 floods destroyed 57 huts and damaged 165 residents.

population

At the 2001 census, Simiri had 76,783 inhabitants. For the year 2010 101,627 inhabitants were calculated.

Culture and sights

Simiri was a frequent location for filmmaker Jean Rouch . Starting with the film Yenendi, les hommes qui font la pluie , which was made in 1951, Rouch primarily documented various aspects of the traditional rain ritual yenendi . In the 1970s, this happened against the background of the severe drought in the Sahel . Rouch last shot in Simiri in 1979.

Economy and Infrastructure

National road 24 between the villages of Boukanda and Sabon Gari in the municipality of Simiri

The community is located in a zone where rain-fed agriculture is practiced. Labor migration abroad is also of economic importance . The national road 24 runs through Simiri and connects the place with the Nigerien capital Niamey and the state border with Mali near Banibangou .

literature

• Chaibou Arzika: Déterminants de la diversification des sources de revenu des exploitations agricoles. Cas des villages de Fabidji (Boboye) et Samari (Ouallam) . Faculté d'Agronomie, Université Abdou Moumouni de Niamey, Niamey 2012.
• Abdoussalam Mamoudou: Suivi sur les pratiques d'élevage dans le terroir villageois de Tongom, Zarmaganda (Ouallam) . Faculté d'Agronomie, Université Abdou Moumouni de Niamey, Niamey 1999.
• Harouna Hassane Mounkaïla: Les systèmes de cultures dans le terroir de Tongom (Zarmaganda, Ouallam) . Faculté d'Agronomie, Université Abdou Moumouni de Niamey, Niamey 1999.
• Boubacar Oumarou: Analysis of the pauvreté in relation to the fertilité des sols. Cas des villages de Sadayzé Koira et Samari dans la commune rurale de Simiri, département de Ouallam, région de Tillabéry (Niger) . Faculté d'Agronomie, Université Abdou Moumouni de Niamey, Niamey 2011.
• Issoufou Gambo Traoré: Rôle de la migration dans les stratégies de survie des populations rurales. Cas des villages de Sadeizé Koira (Ouallam) et de Fabidji (Boboye) . Faculté d'Agronomie, Université Abdou Moumouni de Niamey, Niamey 2011.

Web links

Commons : Simiri  - collection of images, videos and audio files

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. ↑ Edmond Séré de Rivières: Histoire du Niger . Berger-Levrault, Paris 1965, p. 86.
4. ↑ Situation des dégâts causés par les inondations (2008) ( Memento of the original of February 2, 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. . Center d'Information et de Communication website, published November 18, 2008, accessed March 31, 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. ^ Paul Henley: The Adventure of the Real. Jean Rouch and the Craft of Ethnographic Cinema . The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 2009, ISBN 978-0-226-32714-3 , pp. 374 and 384 .
7. ^ 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.