Kollo

Region

Kollo (also: Kolo ) is a town and the capital of the eponymous department Kollo in Niger.

Geography

Kollo is located in the southern Sahel, on the Niger River. The neighboring municipalities are N'Dounga the northwest, Kouré the east and Youri in the southwest. The municipality is divided into five districts, 25 administrative villages and eleven hamlets. The Neighborhoods hot Aoula Kouara, Carré, Kollo Fondou, Madina and Sahara.

History

Kollo was conquered in the second half of the 19th century by the Zarma - ruler Issa Korombé of Karma, who was in alliance with Dargol. At the turn of the 19th to 20th century Kollo came under French rule, under which the city until the independence of Niger in 1960 remained.

Kollo was founded in 1980 as the capital of the newly created arrondissements Kollo, later department of the same name. 2002 Kollo was supported by a municipality (French: commune ) to a municipality ( commune urbaine ) levied. The municipality was part of the dissolved canton Kouré increases that are not of the newly established rural community Kouré were slammed. When the floods in West and Central Africa 2010 2412 Resident of Kollo were classified as disaster victims. Particularly strong administrative village winds Korkoy was affected.

Population

In the 1988 census Kollo had 5,755 inhabitants and in the 2001 census 9,142 inhabitants. For the year 2010 41.017 inhabitants were, after the enlargement of the municipal area is calculated.

Economy and infrastructure

The city is located in a zone is operated in the rain-fed agriculture. In Kollo is a state agricultural school was founded in 1933, the Institute Pratique de Développement Rural ( IPDR ). The city is also the seat of the Tribunal d' Instance, one of the nation's 30 civil courts, which is below the ten civil courts of first instance (Tribunal de Grande Instance ) are. The German aid organization humedica operates since 2009 a hospital in Kollo.

Sister City

Since 2010 is with Enid in the United States, a town twinning.