Tamaya (Niger)
| Tamaya rural community | |||
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| Coordinates | 15 ° 49 ′ N , 6 ° 46 ′ E | ||
| Basic data | |||
| Country | Niger | ||
| Tahoua | |||
| department | Abalak | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | NE-5 | ||
| Residents | 30,956 (2012) | ||
Tamaya is a rural municipality in the department Abalak in Niger .
geography
Tamaya is in the Sahel . The neighboring communities are Ingall in the northeast, Bermo in the southeast, Azèye in the south and Abalak in the west. The municipality is divided into nine administrative villages, two hamlets, three camps and eleven water points. The main town of the rural community is the administrative village of Tamaya.
history
The rural community of Tamaya was established as an administrative unit in 2002 as part of a nationwide administrative reform in a previously unincorporated area.
population
At the 2001 census, Tamaya had 9052 inhabitants. At the 2012 census, the population was 30,956. Tamaya is an important center of the fair-skinned Igdalen , who live here together with the descendants of their former, dark-skinned slaves and who provide the traditional local chief ( chef traditionnel ). Both groups speak the Songhai - Berber - mixed language Tagdal as their first language. The Igdalen are considered by the Tuareg as conservative Muslims and Koran experts.
Economy and Infrastructure
The south of the community is still in the zone of agropastoralism , in the north pure pasture farming predominates. The Igdalen traditionally live as nomadic ranchers who drive their herds as far as Ingall, although some have now settled as small traders and gardeners. There is a cattle market in Tamaya where the breeders sell their animals themselves. The market day is Sunday. National Road 25 runs through Tamaya between the regional capitals Agadez and Tahoua .
Individual evidence
- ^ Répertoire National des Communes (RENACOM) . Institut National de la Statistique website, accessed January 22, 2011.
- ↑ 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)
- ^ 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.
- ↑ Presentation of the résultats globaux définitifs du Quatrième (4ème) Recensement Général de la Population et de l'Habitat (RGP / H) de 2012. (PDF file) Institut National de la Statistique, 2014, accessed on May 1, 2014 (French ).
- ↑ a b Michael J. Rueck, Niels Christiansen: Northern Songhay Languages in Mali and Niger. A Sociolinguistic Survey. (No longer available online.) SIL International, 1999, archived from the original on December 3, 2013 ; accessed on April 25, 2013 . 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Mahamadou Saley, Yatta Paul Maurice Mohamed: Projet Régional d'Appui au Pastoralisme au Sahel (PRAPS). Etude diagnostique des Systèmes d'Information sur les marchés à bétail du Burkina Faso, du Mali, de la Mauritanie, du Niger, du Sénégal et du Tchad. Définitif report. (PDF) CILSS , November 2016, accessed on May 2, 2018 (French).
