Tchintabarades
| Township of Tchintabaraden | |||
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| Coordinates | 15 ° 54 ' N , 5 ° 48' E | ||
| Basic data | |||
| Country | Niger | ||
| Tahoua | |||
| department | Tchintabarades | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | NE-5 | ||
| Residents | 29,934 (2010) | ||
Tchintabaraden (also: Tchin-Tabaraden , or Chiginawen ) is a municipality and the capital of the Tchintabaraden department in Niger .
geography
Tchintabaraden is located in the northern Sahel zone . The neighboring communities are Tassara in the north, Abalak in the east, Kao in the south and Tillia in the west. The municipality is divided into three districts, 17 administrative villages, eleven warehouses and 13 water points. The three districts are called Alléla Konkamawa, Tchintabaraden and Vallée.
history
The name Tchintabaraden comes from Tamaschek and means "valley of the girls". Tchintabaraden became the capital of the Nomade de Tahoua district in 1960, the year Niger became independent, from which the Tchintabaraden arrondissement emerged in 1964 and the Tchintabaraden department in 1998. The Dakar Rally took place in January 1985 via Tchintabaraden. The sub-prefecture of the arrondissement was the target of attacks by insurgent Tuaregs in the 1980s and 1990s . In May 1985, an attack by armed Tuareg left three dead. In an attack in May 1990, 31 people were killed, and a further 63 people were killed in the subsequent counter-attacks by Niger's armed forces . In 2009 floods caused material damage, which directly affected around 2,400 residents.
population
In the 1977 census, Tchintabaraden had 7,656 inhabitants, in the 1988 census 5,150 inhabitants and in the 2001 census 8,142 inhabitants. For the year 2010, after an enlargement of the municipal area, 29,934 inhabitants were calculated.
Culture and sights
On the western edge of the town there is a Friday mosque built in 1984 in the style of a court mosque . Grain stores border the south-eastern, low-rise courtyard wall. There are trees in the northern and western parts of the courtyard. The entire complex of the mosque covers an area of 504 square meters. The prayer room accounts for 104 square meters. The prayer room building has a square floor plan with a vaulted roof and dome-like dome, typical of the Central Sudan architectural style. The mihrab -Vorbau is cuboid, the outer walls are unarticulated. The Adhān platforms built east of the Niger Arch increase in height. The highest podium in the entire region can be found at this Friday mosque. The Adhān staircase is partially covered. The interior has five transversal and five longitudinal aisles. There is a two-tier minbar platform on the south side . The flooring is sand.
Economy and Infrastructure
The city is located in a zone where pasture farming is the predominant form of employment. There is a cattle market in Tchintabaraden. The market day is Sunday. Tchintabaraden is also the seat of a Tribunal d'Instance, one of the 30 civil courts nationwide , which are below the ten civil courts of the first instance (Tribunal de Grande Instance). On May 17, 2000, the second local public radio ( radio communautaire ) in the country after Bankilaré went into operation. The national road 22 , which connects the place with the neighboring community Kao, runs through Tchintabaraden .
literature
- Souley Abdou Hassane: Fonctionnement des marchés et commercialisation de bétail dans la région de Tahoua, cas des marchés de Tchintabaraden, Tahoua commune 2, Badaguichiri, Birni Nkonni et Tounfafi . Faculté d'Agronomie, Université Abdou Moumouni de Niamey, Niamey 2013.
- Abdoulaye Mohamadou: Les pouvoirs locaux dans la commune de Tchintabaraden (= Etudes et Travaux du LASDEL . No. 32 ). LASDEL, Niamey / Parakou February 2005 ( lasdel.net [PDF]).
- Abdoulaye Mohamadou: Les communes de Tchintabaraden et Abalak (an 2) (= Etudes et Travaux du LASDEL . No. 57 ). LASDEL, Niamey / Parakou May 2006 ( lasdel.net [PDF]).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Répertoire National des Communes (RENACOM) . Institut National de la Statistique website, accessed January 22, 2011.
- ^ André Salifou: La question touarègue au Niger . Karthala, Paris 1993, ISBN 2-86537-434-3 , p. 8.
- ↑ Edmond Séré de Rivières: Histoire du Niger . Berger-Levrault, Paris 1965, p. 19.
- ↑ Edmond Séré de Rivières: Histoire du Niger . Berger-Levrault, Paris 1965, p. 275.
- ↑ Dakar Retrospective 1979–2007. (PDF) Amaury Sport Organization, archived from the original on July 8, 2011 ; accessed on February 14, 2018 (English).
- ^ Boukary Adji: Dans les méandres d'une transition politique . Karthala, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-86537-857-8 , p. 157.
- ↑ Situation des besoins des populations victimes d'inondations (2009) ( Memento of the original dated 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 on September 22, 2009, accessed on March 31, 2012.
- ↑ bevoelkerungsstatistik.de Page no longer available , search in web archives: Tchintabaraden , accessed on January 15, 2012.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Dorothee Gruner: The clay mosque on the Niger. Documentation of a traditional building type . Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-515-05357-3 , pp. 32 and 350.
- ^ 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).
- ↑ Bachir Talfi: Note sur l'organization judiciaire . Nigerien Ministry of Justice website, accessed September 24, 2012.
- ↑ La situation de la communication pour le développement au Niger (Etat des lieux). Tome 1. (PDF file; 461 kB) Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2003, p. 23 , accessed on November 1, 2019 (French).
