Zarmagandey (Niamey)

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Zarmagandey (also: Zarmagandeye ) is a district of Niamey in Niger .

Zarmagandey is an informal settlement that was created in the 1980s when members of the Zarma ethnic group moved in. The division of the land happened to the displeasure of the city administration. In 2014 Zarmagandey had around 15,000 inhabitants. The settlement is located on the western edge of the urban district of the Niamey V arrondissement . The neighboring districts are Lamordé in the north, Karadjé in the east and Nordiré in the south beyond National Road 6 .

Zarmagandey lies on an alluvial soil that allows infiltration in the north of the district. There the groundwater is at risk of being contaminated. In the south of the district, however, the groundwater level is so high that no infiltration is possible, which in turn increases the risk of flooding. Zarmagandey is regularly exposed to flooding during the rainy season in July and August. An oxbow lake of the Niger River , which carries water in the rainy season, runs through the settlement . Serious flood damage occurred in 1998, 2010, 2012, 2013 and 2017. The flood disaster of 2010 destroyed 36 residential buildings, and in 2017 21 residential buildings.

In Zarmagandey there is a health center (Center de Santé Intégré) , which was founded in 2008 by the aid organization World Vision and equipped with a solar power supply by the Nigerien Ministry of Health in 2011 . In 2014, the health center was responsible for caring for around 30,000 people. These included not only the inhabitants of Zarmagandey those of the neighborhood Northern Irishman, villages Diamowé , Ganguel , Kossey , Kourtéré Boubacar and Kourtéré Samboro and the hamlet Bibia , Birniol , Bougoum , Djadjiré , Hogolé , Kariel , Kolonsa , Lamoudé , Lokoto , Lougadjam , Tchangaré and Yoware . There is also a primary school in the district. The houses in Zarmagandey are usually adobe buildings without any comfort. Cooking takes place outdoors. There is no running water and accordingly no showers and water closets.

literature

  • Tahirou Hassan Yaou, Bachirou Hamadou Younoussa, Amadou Abdourhamane Touré, Ibrahim Issa Toukal, Zibo Garba: Caractérisations physiques des sols et de leurs rôles dans les inondations á Niamey, Niger . In: Africa Science . Vol. 14, No. 3 , May 2018, ISSN  1813-548X , p. 192-205 ( researchgate.net ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kokou Henri Motcho: Niamey, Garin captan Salma ou l'histoire du peuplement de la ville de Niamey . In: Jérôme Aloko-N'Guessan, Amadou Diallo, Kokou Henri Motcho (eds.): Villes et organization de l'espace en Afrique . Karthala, Paris 2010, ISBN 978-2-8111-0339-2 , pp. 25 .
  2. ↑ Apollinaire Tini: La gestion des déchets solid ménagers à Niamey au Niger: essai pour une stratégie de gestion durable . Thèse de doctorat. Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon, Lyon 2003, p. 46 ( insa-lyon.fr [PDF; accessed May 1, 2019]).
  3. ↑ Abdourahmane Idrissa, Samuel Decalo: Historical Dictionary of Niger . 4th edition. Scarecrow, Plymouth 2012, ISBN 0-7864-0495-7 , pp. 336 .
  4. ↑ Kokou Henri Motcho, Hamadou Issaka: Diversité of stratégies résidentielles des familles démunies à Niamey. (PDF) Université Abdou Moumouni de Niamey, July 25, 2018, p. 3 , accessed on May 5, 2019 (French).
  5. ↑ a b Dossou Modeste Landry: Report de stage rural au district sanitaire du Vème arrondissement de Niamey. Université Abdou Moumouni de Niamey, 2014, accessed on May 12, 2019 (French).
  6. ↑ Hamadou Issaka, Dominique Badariotti: Les inondations à Niamey, enjeux autour d'un phenomène complexe . In: Cahiers d'Outre-Mer . No. 263 , September 2013, p. 383-384 ( openedition.org [accessed April 21, 2019]).
  7. ↑ a b Tahirou Hassan Yaou, Bachirou Hamadou Younoussa, Amadou Abdourhamane Touré, Ibrahim Issa Toukal, Zibo Garba: Caractérisations physiques des sols et de leurs rôles dans les inondations á Niamey, Niger . In: Africa Science . Vol. 14, No. 3 , May 2018, ISSN  1813-548X , p. 197–198 ( researchgate.net [accessed April 19, 2019]).
  8. ↑ NIGER • Inondations. Rapport de situation # 01.9 août 2010. (PDF) United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), August 9, 2010, accessed on June 10, 2019 (French).
  9. ↑ Oumarou Moussa: Amélioration of his conditions de vie et de travail au of formations sanitaires du 5ème Arrondissement de Niamey: quand l'électricité illumine l'Hôpital de district de Gaweye et le CSI de Zarmagandey. In: Niger Diaspora. August 22, 2011, accessed April 25, 2019 (French).
  10. ↑ Issa Mamane Manirou: Etude diagnostique des conditions d'accès à l'eau, l'hygiène et l'assainissement dans les écoles publiques de l'arrondissement primaires communal V de la ville de Niamey, Niger . Mémoire de fin d'étude. Annexes. 2iE Institut International de l'Eau et de l'Environnement, Ouagadougou 2016, p. III ( 2ie-edu.org [PDF; accessed on June 3, 2019]).
  11. ↑ Kokou Henri Motcho, Hamadou Issaka: Diversité of stratégies résidentielles des familles démunies à Niamey. (PDF) Université Abdou Moumouni de Niamey, July 25, 2018, p. 2 , accessed on May 5, 2019 (French).

Coordinates: 13 ° 30 '  N , 2 ° 4'  E