Arlit

Region

Arlit is a town and the capital of the eponymous department of Arlit in Niger. The city is mainly known for uranium mining.

Geography

Arlit is located in the north of the country in the desert Ténéré, about 200 kilometers southeast of the border town Assamaka (municipality Ingall ) to Algeria and about 250 kilometers north of the city of Agadez. The city is divided into 15 Neighborhood: Administratif, Akokan Carré, Akokan Cité, Boukoki Est, Sud Boukoki, Boukoki Tamesna, Carré Nouveau Marché, Carré SNTN, Cité Somaïr, Madawela Compagnie, Tamesna, Sahel, Takriss, Wadata and Zongo.

History

Arlit was founded in 1969 to exploit the nearby uranium deposits that form the economic base of the city to this day. The mining companies invested Somaïr to 1976 about 7.84 billion CFA francs in the establishment of the city. Even in the 1970s allowed the mining companies Cominak its own large district Akokan southwest of the center to create.

Seclusion and uranium mining make the region attractive for Islamist terrorists. Five working for the French nuclear group Areva and a Togolese and a Madagascan were kidnapped by suspected Al- Qaeda in the Maghreb in Arlit on September 16, 2010. On October 30, 2013, it came free and were able to return to France.

Population

In the 1977 census Arlit had 10,386 inhabitants in the census in 1988 32 272 inhabitants in the 2001 census 67 398 inhabitants. For the year 2010 107.180 inhabitants were calculated. Arlit, making it the second largest city by population in the Agadez region after its capital Agadez.

Policy

In the local elections in July 2004 Bachir Abdoulaziz ( PNDS - Tarayya ) was elected mayor. On 15 April 2010 the Council of Ministers Algabid Daouda appointed administrator ( Administrateur Délégué ) the community.

Economy and infrastructure

The promotion of uranium ore is mainly in the hands of the French nuclear company Areva, the concealment of any increased radioactive contamination of the environment and the miners accused. By mining the city has, despite its remote location over a relatively good infrastructure, such as an airport. Arlit is also the seat of the Tribunal de Grande Instance, one of the nation's ten civil courts of first instance.

By the paved national road 25 Arlit to Agadez is now on the main line of the so-called Hoggar runway, the traffic route from Algeria Tamanrasset across the Sahara to Niger. Seen from north of the dirt road ends here and turns into an asphalt road. Nevertheless, the developed route through Arlit is today shunned even by a considerable part of the Trans -Saharan trade to and from Algeria and coming on the border town Assamaka handled trucks. In particular, the movement of goods in the southwestern regions of the Niger capital Niamey and often will continue to Arlit over over shorter runs that follow in part the old caravan routes. Scenic goes here still completely devoid of vegetation desert gradually over the first still sparsely vegetated and later with more and more trees interspersed Sahel en route to Agadez.

Personalities

• Amadou Moutari (* 1994), football player