Tsernaoua
| Rural community of Tsernaoua | |||
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| Coordinates | 13 ° 53 ' N , 5 ° 21' E | ||
| Basic data | |||
| Country | Niger | ||
| Tahoua | |||
| department | Birni-N'Konni | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | NE-5 | ||
| Residents | 73,705 (2012) | ||
| politics | |||
| mayor | Boubé Nomao (2004) | ||
| Political party | PNDS Tarayya | ||
Tsernaoua (also: Tsernawa ) is a rural community in the Birni-N'Konni department in Niger .
geography
Tsernaoua lies at the transition from the Sudan to the Sahel zone and borders the neighboring state of Nigeria in the southeast . The neighboring communities in Niger are Birni-N'Konni in the southwest, Alléla in the west and Malbaza in the northeast. The municipality is divided into 18 administrative villages and 34 hamlets. The main town of the rural community is the village of Tsernaoua.
The dry valley Maggia runs through the municipality . The Forêt classée de Tsernaoua is a 2367 hectare protected forest area in the municipality of Tsernaoua.
history
The rural community of Tsernaoua emerged as an administrative unit in 2002 as part of a nationwide administrative reform from the eastern part of the canton of Birni-N'Konni.
population
At the 2001 census, Tsernaoua had 44,941 inhabitants. At the 2012 census, the population was 73,705.
politics
In the local elections in July 2004, Boubé Nomao ( PNDS-Tarayya ) was elected mayor.
Economy and Infrastructure
The country's first onion trading center opened in 2007 in Tsernaoua. The rural community is located in an area important for onion cultivation. More such trading centers were created in 2010 in Madaoua and Tamaské . The Mozagué Dam and the Zongo Dam on the Maggia are used, among other things, for irrigation , flood protection and livestock farming . Tsernaoua is on National Road 1 . Here the national road 29 branches off , which leads north via Badaguichiri to the regional capital Tahoua .
literature
- Pierre Chaperon: Note hydrologique provisoire sur la Maggia à Tsernaoua . ORSTOM, Niamey 1968 ( horizon.documentation.ird.fr [PDF]).
Individual evidence
- ^ Répertoire National des Communes (RENACOM) . Institut National de la Statistique website, accessed January 22, 2011.
- ^ Republic of Niger: Loi n ° 2002-014 du 11 JUIN 2002 portant création des communes et fixant le nom de leurs chefs-lieux .
- ↑ Données disponibles pour chaque forêt classée ( Memento of July 29, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ). Website of the Direction de l'Environnement, Ministère de l'Hydraulique, de l'Environnement et de la Lutte Contre la Désertification, accessed on 25 February 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. 55.
- ↑ Presentation of the result globaux définitifs du Quatrième (4ème) Recensement Général de la Population et de l'Habitat (RGP / H) de 2012. (PDF) Institut National de la Statistique, 2014, accessed on May 1, 2014 (French).
- ^ Maires du PNDS. (PDF) PNDS-Tarayya , archived from the original on December 2, 2013 ; accessed on February 14, 2018 (French).
- ↑ RECA info. Bulletin trimestriel d'information du Réseau National des Chambres d'Agriculture du Niger . No. 8, June 2010, p. 2 ( online version ; PDF; 263 kB).
- ^ Dams of Africa. (xlsx) Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), accessed on September 23, 2018 .
