Tahoua (department)

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Tahoua department
Departments in the Tahoua region until 2011
Departments in the Tahoua region until 2011
Basic data
Country Niger
region Tahoua
Seat Tahoua
surface 9743 km²
Residents 581,586 (2012)
density 60 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166-2 NE-5
politics
prefect Abdou Malam Ali

Coordinates: 14 ° 53 '  N , 5 ° 16'  E

Tahoua [ taˈwa ] is a department in the Tahoua region in Niger .

geography

Founkoye, a district of Tahoua (2016)

The department is located in the west of the country. It consists of the city of Tahoua and the rural parishes of Affala , Bambeye , Barmou , Kalfou , Takanamat and Tébaram . The eponymous capital of the department is Tahoua.

There are five villages with more than 5000 inhabitants according to the 2012 census:

history

After Niger gained independence in 1960, the national territory was divided into 32 districts ( circonscriptions ). One of them was the Tahoua District. 1964 an administrative reform divided Niger into seven departments, the predecessors of the later regions, and 32 arrondissements , the predecessors of the later departments. In the course of this, the Tahoua district was converted into the Tahoua arrondissement.

In 1998, the previous Arrondissements of Niger were elevated to departments, each headed by a prefect appointed by the Council of Ministers. The department has been divided into municipalities since 2002. Before that, it consisted of the urban center Tahoua and the cantons of Tahoua, Bambey and Kalfou.

population

According to the 2012 census, the Tahoua department has 581,586 inhabitants, including 147,291 in the city of Tahoua. In the 2001 census it was 359,994 inhabitants, in the 1988 census 239,048 inhabitants and in the 1977 census 166,330 inhabitants.

administration

At the head of the department is a prefect (French: préfet ) who is appointed by the Council of Ministers on the proposal of the Minister of the Interior .

Prefects of the Department of Tahoua (selection)
Term of office Surname
...
until March 12th 2009 Aboubacar Abdou
March 12 2009 - Apr 15, 2010 Oudou Ambouka
Apr 15, 2010 - Jun 3, 2011 Moussa Kossomi
Jun 3, 2011 - Dec 4, 2013 Attaher Laouali Dango
Dec 4, 2013 - Mar 23 2017 Abbas Baoua (aka Abbas Bawa)
23 Mar 2017 - May 9, 2017 Oumarou Tanko
since May 9, 2017 Abdou Malam Ali

literature

  • Laouali Boubacar Mahaman: Les plantes de cueillette, potentialités, rôle dans la sécurisation alimentaire des populations et distribution actuelle dans l'arrondissement de Tahoua . Faculté d'Agronomie, Université Abdou Moumouni de Niamey, Niamey 1999.
  • Nicole Echard: Repertoire historique des communautés rurales de la Province de Tawa . Institut d'Ethnologie, Paris 1972.

Web links

Commons : Tahoua (Department)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tahoua. (No longer available online.) In: Projet d'Appui au Processus de la Décentralization. Ministère de l'Intérieur, de la Sécurité Publique, de la Décentralization et des Affaires Religieuses, archived from the original on February 2, 2014 ; Retrieved January 28, 2014 (French). 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / decentralization-niger.org
  2. ↑ Répertoire National des localites (ReNaLoc). (RAR) Institut National de la Statistique de la République du Niger, July 2014, pp. 377–319 , accessed on August 7, 2015 (French).
  3. ↑ Edmond Séré de Rivières: Histoire du Niger . Berger-Levrault, Paris 1965, p. 19 .
  4. ↑ Edmond Séré de Rivières: Histoire du Niger . Berger-Levrault, Paris 1965, p. 275 .
  5. ↑ Historique de la decentralization. ANIYA. Réseau des collectivités nigériennes et françaises, archived from the original on April 6, 2012 ; Retrieved January 28, 2014 (French).
  6. ^ Répartition de la Population de la Région de TAHOUA par Sexe selon le Département, Canton ou Zone Restante et le Center Urbain. (PDF file) Institut National de la Statistique du Niger, 2001, accessed on January 28, 2014 (French).
  7. ↑ Présentation des résultats préliminaires du Quatrième (4ème) Recensement Général de la Population et de l'Habitat (RGPH) 2012. (PDF file) Institut National de la Statistique du Niger, April 2013, p. 5 , accessed on January 28 2014 (French).
  8. ^ Annuaire statistique des cinquante ans d'indépendance du Niger. (PDF file; 3.1 MB) Institut Nationale de la Statistique du Niger, 2010, p. 49 , accessed on January 27, 2013 (French).
  9. ^ Au conseil des ministres: Plusieurs projets de lois et de décrets adoptés . In: Sahel Dimanche . March 13, 2009, p. 3 ( nigerdiaspora.net [PDF; accessed October 15, 2018]).
  10. ^ Communiqué du conseil des ministres du jeudi 15 avril 2010. In: Niger Diaspora. April 15, 2010, accessed October 14, 2018 (French).
  11. ^ Au Conseil des ministres: le gouvernement adopte plusieurs projets de lois et des mesures nominatives. In: PlaneteAfrique. June 6, 2011, accessed October 14, 2018 (French).
  12. ↑ Adoption de plusieurs projets de loi et mesures nominatives au conseil des ministres. In: aNiamey.com. December 5, 2013, accessed October 14, 2018 (French).
  13. ↑ Le Conseil des Ministres s'est réuni ce jour, jeudi 23 mars 2017, dans la salle habituelle des délibérations, sous la présidence de Son Excellence, Monsieur Issoufou Mahamadou, Président de la République, Président du Conseil des Ministres. In: Agence Nigérienne de Presse (ANP). March 24, 2017, accessed October 14, 2018 (French).
  14. ^ Au Conseil des ministres: Plusieurs projets de textes et des mesures nominatives adoptées par le Gouvernement . In: Le Sahel . May 10, 2017, p. 3 ( nigerdiaspora-media.net [PDF; accessed October 15, 2018]).