Kourteye

Region

Kourteye is a rural municipality in the Department Tilabéri in Niger.

Geography

The municipality is located in the south of the department on the left bank of the River Niger. The neighboring municipalities are Tilabéri, Sakoïra and Ouallam in the north, Simiri in the east, karma and Namaro in the south and Gothèye in the West. The municipality is divided into 56 administrative villages, 67 traditional villages, 27 hamlets and a warehouse. The main town of the rural community is the administrative village Sansane Haoussa. The large villages such as Sansane Haoussa, Lossa Kado, Sona and Kokomani located in the western part of the township near the river. The municipal area includes the historically significant administrative village Sorbon Haoussa.

Kourteye located in the Sahel region and is dominated by the Harmattan and monsoon. The climatic conditions are divided into a rainy season ( May to September), a cold dry season (from October to February) and a hot dry season (March to May). In geological terms, the township is part of the Precambrian era. Formative rocks are granite and slate. The soils are ferruginous, clayey or marked by dunes. Among other things along the Niger there are gallery forests. The plateaus are bushland where acacias, Kinkeliba and Wüstendatteln thrive.

History

Kourteye is named after the ethnic group Kurtey. The name comes from Kourou Kurtey TE ( Zarma ) that " the flock is complete " means. This name is attributed to the fact that the Kurtey in the first half of the 19th century in small groups migrated from the Massina Empire and homed in their new settlement area on the Niger piecemeal. In 1904, the French canton of Kurtey (canton of Kourtey ), who in 1905 was the newly created military territory of Niger ( Territoire Militaire du Niger ) is connected and from 2002, the rural community Kourteye emerged. 2008 floods destroyed 129 houses and cottages in the village of Dia Dia, where more than 1,000 people suffered material damage. When the floods in West and Central Africa in 2010 over 1000 residents of Kourteye were also classified as disaster victims, almost 800 in the village of Sorbon Haoussa.

Population

Kourteye is still in front of the regional capital Tilabéri the most populated municipality of the department. At the 2001 census Kourteye had 50 171 inhabitants. For the year 2010 66.379 inhabitants were calculated. The main ethnic groups in the community are Zarma - Songhai, Kurtey, Fulani and Bella. The dominant language is Zarma.

Economy and infrastructure

More than 90 percent of the working population of Kourteye are engaged in agriculture. In the village Lossa and on the island Kouboutchiré fishing activity. Fulani and Tuareg in the villages Tamtala and Balleybangou work in animal husbandry.

The geomorphological conditions in the community complicate the use of underground sources of drinking water.