Yatakala

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Location of Yatakala in Niger

Yatakala is a village in the Gorouol rural community in western Niger .

The village, run by a traditional mayor, is located in the west of the Gorouol municipality near the state border with Burkina Faso . It is the northern end of the national road 5 coming from the departmental capital Téra . The Béli River flows into the Gorouol near the village .

The Yasaan pearls found at Yatakala date from the period from 640 to 1170. These are small terracotta balls that were found in a similar shape in Mali and sold to tourists in large numbers. In the course of the military occupation of the later Niger colony by France, Yatakala was, along with Doulsou and Sinder, the first place where a French military base was set up in 1899. This was given up again in 1903. In 2000, Yatakala became one of three bases of a joint brigade of Niger, Burkina Faso and Mali. The other two bases were set up in Labbézanga in Mali and in Maretei in Burkina Faso. The 500-strong brigade was created to provide humanitarian aid, control the transport of light firearms, and ensure the safety of people and goods at border crossings.

At the 2012 census, Yatakala had 3,193 residents who lived in 350 households. At the 2001 census the population was 2,226, at the 1988 census it was 2,547.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Audrey Boucksom: Arts "touristiques" en Afrique et consommateurs occidentaux. Le cas de l'artisanat d'art au Niger . Thèse de doctorat. Université Paris I-Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris 2009, p. 106 ( tel.archives-ouvertes.fr [PDF; accessed April 26, 2019]).
  2. ↑ Edmond Séré de Rivières: Histoire du Niger . Berger-Levrault, Paris 1965, p. 234-235 .
  3. ↑ Brigade militaire conjointe. IRIN Association, August 7, 2000, accessed August 11, 2016 (French).
  4. ↑ Répertoire National des localites (ReNaLoc). (RAR) Institut National de la Statistique de la République du Niger, July 2014, p. 505 , accessed on 7 August 2015 (French).
  5. ^ Répertoire National des Communes (RENACOM). (RAR) Institut National de la Statistique de la République du Niger, accessed on November 8, 2010 (French).
  6. ↑ 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. 266 ( 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

Coordinates: 14 ° 48 '  N , 0 ° 22'  E