Toro (Niger)

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Location of Toro in Niger

Toro is a village in the rural community of Barmou in Niger .

The village, led by a traditional local chief ( chef traditionnel ), is located about ten kilometers south of Barmou, the capital of the rural community of the same name, which belongs to the Tahoua department in the Tahoua region of the same name . The regional capital Tahoua is around 16 kilometers to the southwest. The 15th parallel north of the country runs through Toro . The settlement is in the north of the Ader landscape .

Toro was the scene of fighting between various Tuareg factions such as the Kel Dinnik and the Kel Gress in the last third of the 19th century .

At the 2012 census, Toro had 9,144 residents who lived in 1,535 households. At the 2001 census, the population was 5,915 in 931 households, and at the 1988 census, the population was 5,737 in 833 households.

There is a health center in the village without its own laboratory or maternity ward.

literature

  • Hassane Sanda Gonda: Vers un développement du maraîchage au Niger. Analysis-diagnostic et typologie des exploitations maraîchères de la vallée de Toro - Commune rurale de Barmou (Tahoua) . Éditions Universitaires Européennes, 2013, ISBN 978-6-13155129-1 (first edition: Faculté d'Agronomie, Université Abdou Moumouni de Niamey, Niamey 2012).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b National Repertoire des Localités (ReNaLoc). (RAR) Institut National de la Statistique de la République du Niger, July 2014, p. 383 , accessed on 7 August 2015 (French).
  2. ^ Benedetta Rossi: From Slavery to Aid. Politics, Labor, and Ecology in the Nigerien Sahel, 1800-2000 . Cambridge University Press, New York 2005, ISBN 978-1-107-11905-5 , pp. xviii .
  3. ^ Edmond Bernus: Récits historiques de l'Azawagh. Traditions of Iullemmeden Kel Dinnik (République du Niger) . In: Bulletin de l'Institut Fondamental d'Afrique Noire . Series B, Sciences humaines. Tome 32, no. 2 , 1970, p. 452 and 464 ( horizon.documentation.ird.fr [PDF; accessed October 13, 2018]).
  4. ^ Répertoire National des Communes (RENACOM). (RAR file) Institut National de la Statistique, accessed November 8, 2010 (French).
  5. ↑ 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. 286 ( ceped.org [PDF; accessed January 31, 2018]). www.ceped.org ( Memento of the original dated January 31, 2018 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ceped.org
  6. ^ Niger DSS. In: Systems Nationale d'Information Sanitaire (SNIS). Ministère de la Santé Publique, République du Niger, accessed on October 13, 2018 (French).

Coordinates: 15 ° 0 '  N , 5 ° 24'  E