Tchirozérine

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Municipality of Tchirozérine
Municipality of Tchirozérine (Niger)
Municipality of Tchirozérine
Municipality of Tchirozérine
Coordinates 17 ° 16 ′  N , 7 ° 50 ′  E Coordinates: 17 ° 16 ′  N , 7 ° 50 ′  E
Basic data
Country Niger

region

Agadez
department Tchirozérine
ISO 3166-2 NE-1
Residents 63,503 (2012)
politics
mayor Issouf ag Maha (2012)

Tchirozérine is a municipality and the capital of the Tchirozérine department in Niger .

geography

Tchirozérine is located at the transition from the Sahel zone to the desert zone of the Sahara . The neighboring communities are Dabaga in the east and Ingall in the west. The urban area is divided into eleven districts and a rural municipality area with 14 villages, nine hamlets , 38 nomad camps and three water points. The eleven districts are Carré Nord, Carré Sud, Cité Sonichar, Dragage, Intamadet, Islamique, Kanna I, Kanna II, Malam Ramou, Tchiro Center and Tchiro Ouest.

The dry valley Tidène runs through the municipality . The geographical center of Niger is located near the village of Tidène of the same name ( ⊙ ).

history

The place name Tchirozérine means "the small rivers".

In 1956, the French administration at the time set up a school especially for the nomadic population in the village of Azel (also: Azzel Ecole), which belongs to Tchirozérine . Tchirozérine became the capital of the newly created arrondissement Tchirozérine in 1983, the later department of the same name. In 2009 floods caused material damage, which directly affected over 20,000 residents of the city. Only the village Toumga II in Tchirozérine was affected by the flood disaster in West and Central Africa in 2010 : 351 villagers there were classified as victims of the disaster.

population

A boy in the village of Azamalan, which belongs to Tchirozérine

In the 1988 census, Tchirozérine had 5521 inhabitants in 1095 households and in the 2001 census, after an increase to include a rural municipality, 21,869 inhabitants in 7634 households, of which 5005 people in 1486 households in the urban municipality. At the 2012 census, the population was 63,503 in 11,530 households, of which 9,571 people were in 1,550 households in the urban municipality. The people mainly belong to the Kel Ewey- Tuareg who predominate in the Aïr Mountains .

Culture

In 2010, the Aïr Festival , which was founded in 2001 in Iferouane , took place for the first time in the village of Agarouss, which belongs to Tchirozérine . With the parish of St. John the Baptist established in 1961, there is a small Roman Catholic parish in the city that belongs to the Maradi diocese . Another Roman Catholic parish, which was founded in 1955, is located in the municipality by the well of Kerboubou (Kerbubu).

Economy and Infrastructure

In Tchirozérine there is a modest gardening business. Oxen draws water from wells, which is led into the cultivated beds via a canal system.

During the search for uranium , the Anou Araren coal deposit was discovered near Tchirozérine in 1964 . Since 1980, here in the open pit approximately 160,000 tons of coal annually mined. In the city there is an important coal-fired power station operated by the state-owned Sonichar , which ensures the power supply to the uranium mines of Arlit and the cities of Tchirozérine and Agadez .

The Roman Catholic mission in Tchirozérine maintains a primary school that was attended by many members of the Tuareg ethnic group who later held positions of responsibility . Tchirozérine is 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).

Partner municipality

Personalities

literature

  • Gerd Spittler : Droughts, war and hunger crises among the Kel Ewey (1900–1985) . Franz Steiner, Stuttgart 1989 (monograph).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b National Repertoire des Localités (ReNaLoc). (RAR) Institut National de la Statistique de la République du Niger, July 2014, pp. 25–29 , accessed on August 7, 2015 (French).
  2. ↑ Au Niger. Association SOS Boîtes de Lait, accessed on July 1, 2015 (French).
  3. ↑ Conference Régionale sur la Problématique de l'éducation en milieu nomade dans l'espace sahélo-saharians. (PDF file) (No longer available online.) SE SDS Sahel Niger, 2013, p. 2 , archived from the original on January 7, 2015 ; Retrieved January 7, 2015 (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 / www.adeanet.org
  4. ^ Frédéric Giraut: Retour du refoulé et effet chef-lieu. Analysis d'une refonte politico-administrative virtual au Niger . PRODIG, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-901560-38-5 , pp. 35 ( PDF file [accessed August 17, 2013]).
  5. ↑ 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.cic.ne
  6. ↑ Situation des besoins des populations victimes d'inondations (2010) ( Memento of the original from October 16, 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. . Website of the Center d'Information et de Communication, published on September 23, 2010, accessed on March 31, 2012. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.cic.ne
  7. ↑ Recensement Général de la Population 1988: Répertoire National des Villages du Niger . Bureau Central de Recensement, Ministère du Plan, République du Niger, Niamey March 1991, p. 24 ( web.archive.org [PDF; accessed May 4, 2019]).
  8. ^ Répertoire National des Communes (RENACOM). (RAR file) Institut National de la Statistique, accessed November 8, 2010 (French).
  9. ↑ a b Gerd Spittler , Dürren, Krieg und Hungerkrisen, p. 7 ff. (See lit.)
  10. ^ A b Jean-Paul Labourdette, Dominique Auzias: Niger 2009 . Nouvelle édition de l'Université, Paris 2009, ISBN 2-7469-1640-1 , pp. 43 .
  11. ↑ Tchirozérine - Paroisse Saint Jean-Baptiste. Eglise Catholique au Niger, accessed July 1, 2015 (French).
  12. ↑ Puits de Kerbubu. Eglise Catholique au Niger, accessed July 1, 2015 (French).
  13. ^ Jean-Paul Labourdette, Dominique Auzias: Niger 2009 . Nouvelle édition de l'Université, Paris 2009, ISBN 2-7469-1640-1 , pp. 182 .
  14. ↑ Bachir Talfi: Note sur l'organization judiciaire . Nigerien Ministry of Justice website, accessed September 24, 2012.
  15. ^ Jean-Claude Peyronnet: La solidarité internationale à l'échelle des territoires: état des lieux et perspectives. Annexe 5: Document de travail de l'ambassade de France au Niger sur les coopérations décentralisées dans ce pays. Senate of the French Republic, November 13, 2012, accessed July 6, 2013 (French).