Bankilare

Region

Bankilaré is a rural municipality and the capital of the eponymous department Bankilaré in Niger.

Geography

Bankilaré located in the southern Sahel region between the Niger River and the border with Burkina Faso. The neighboring communities in Niger are Gorouol in the north, Ayérou and Dessa to the east and Kokorou and Téra in the south. The municipality is divided into eight administrative villages, two traditional villages, a hamlet, 42 bearings and a water source. The main town of the rural community is the administrative village Bankilaré.

History

1899 reached the area of Bankilaré under French administration, first as part of the district 's Indian and later as part of the canton Gorouol. To manage the nomadic Tuareg and Fulani in the area, an administrative post was set up in 1959 in Bankilaré. Bankilaré so that was next to Kolmane and Yatakala the third village in the canton Gorouol, that was for purposes of political administration of importance. Overall the place has received several infrastructural facilities such as a police station and a health center. Already in 1956 a primary school was opened. In the area of Bankilaré were still in the 1960s, significant acreage of millet. After that ensured poor climatic conditions and infertile soils of a strong reduction of agriculture. In independent Niger ( 1960 ) retained Bankilaré the status of administrative posts. In particular, in the course of a long time of fruitless efforts to decentralize the country from the 1990s, local Tuareg leaders sat for a detachment of Bankilarés Gorouol one. Only in the course of the nationwide administrative reform of 2002 Bankilaré became an independent country of Gorouol community. The hunger crisis in Niger in 2005 Bankilaré Gorouol as one of the most affected places. Here the population had less than one meal a day. The administrative posts of Bankilaré was removed in 2011 from the Department Téra and collected at the Department Bankilaré.

Population

At the 2001 census Bankilaré had 24 328 inhabitants. For the year 2010 32.186 inhabitants were calculated.

Economy and infrastructure

The River Niger wet rice cultivation is practiced. The rest of the municipality belongs to a zone in which some still Agropastoralismus is operated. Located in the capital took in December 1999, the country's first local citizen radio (radio communautaire) on its operation. Bankilaré is located on National Road 5, which connects the village with the neighboring communities Gorouol and Téra.