Sokorbé
| Rural community of Sokorbé | |||
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| Coordinates | 13 ° 30 ' N , 3 ° 11' E | ||
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| Country | Niger | ||
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| department | Loga | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | NE-3 | ||
| surface | 705 km² | ||
| Residents | 35,579 (2012) | ||
| density | 50.5 Ew. / km² | ||
Sokorbe is a rural municipality in the department of Loga in Niger .
geography
Sokorbé is located at the transition from the Sahel to the greater Sudan landscape . There are 22 villages, 38 hamlets and 20 camps in the municipality. The main town of the rural community is the village of Sokorbé. The largest village by population is Moussa Dey Béri . The neighboring communities of Sokorbés are Loga in the north, Mokko in the east, Garankédey in the south and Dantchandou in the west.
history
Sokorbé was founded around 1800 in a previously unpopulated area of Maouri, a subgroup of the Hausa who came from Matankari under their leader Tamo . Tamo's successors were called mayaki .
The rural community of Sokorbé emerged from the canton of Sokorbé in 2002 as part of a nationwide administrative reform.
population
At the 2001 census, Sokorbé had 29,253 inhabitants. At the 2012 census, the population was 35,579. The majority of the population belongs to the Zarma ethnic group , followed by the Fulbe and Tuareg . There is also an immigration from Hausa.
Economy and Infrastructure
The community is located in a zone where rain-fed agriculture is practiced. Labor migration abroad is also of economic importance .
literature
- Karimou Mahamane: Les Mawri de Sokorbé . Mémoire. Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris 1972.
- Hassane Moumouni, Abdoul Wahid: Caractérisation biophysique des banquettes du site de Dikki (Commune Rurale de Sokorbé - Département de Loga) . Faculté d'Agronomie, Université Abdou Moumouni de Niamey, Niamey 2017.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b National Repertoire des Localités (ReNaLoc). (RAR) Institut National de la Statistique de la République du Niger, July 2014, pp. 177–179 , accessed on August 7, 2015 (French).
- ^ Republic of Niger: Loi n ° 2002-014 du 11 JUIN 2002 portant création des communes et fixant le nom de leurs chefs-lieux .
- ↑ Edmond Séré de Rivières: Histoire du Niger . Berger-Levrault, Paris 1965, p. 90.
- ^ 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. 54.
- ↑ 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).
- ↑ Présentation de la commune de Sokorbé ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Website of the ANIYA Coopération Décentralisée Niger-France, accessed on January 27, 2011.
- ^ 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.
