Badaguichiri

Region

Badaguichiri is a rural municipality in the department of Illela in Niger.

Geography

Badaguichiri is located in a rugged terrain in the Sahel, which is intersected by several valleys such as the Badaguichiri Valley ( vallée de Badaguichiri ) and the Lassa Valley ( vallée de Lassa ). The neighboring municipalities are Illela, Bambeye and Kalfou the northwest, Tamaské in the northeast, Allakaye in the east, in the southeast and Doguérawa Malbaza and Tajaé in the southwest. The municipality is divided into 43 administrative villages, three traditional villages and 66 hamlets. The main town of the rural community is the administrative village Badaguichiri.

History

The rural community Badaguichiri emerged from the eastern part of the canton Illela / Tajaé as an administrative unit in 2002.

Population

At the 2001 census Badaguichiri had 88 976 inhabitants. For the year 2010 119.886 inhabitants were calculated. The majority provide Hausa, but there are minorities of Fulani and Tuareg.

Policy

In the local elections in July 2004 Harouna Arzika ( PNDS - Tarayya ) was elected mayor. On 15 April 2010 the Council of Ministers Allolo Abdelkader appointed administrator ( Administrateur Délégué ) the community.

Culture and sights

The Great Mosque of Yaama is an architecturally significant Friday Mosque in the administrative village Yaama (also: Yama ) in the municipality of Badaguichiri. The mosque was from 1962 to 1963 after plans by the architect Elhadj Mamoudou, called Falcon, built. The Hawk died in 2002, was a self-taught artist, who had been originally a farmer in the region. The builder of the mosque was Elhadj Habou, worked with the falcon on other projects. Hawk was also launched a 1975-1982 reorganization and expansion of the mosque, for which he was honored in 1986 with the Aga Khan Award for Architecture. The Great Mosque of Yaama four minarets is characterized by a style-forming combination of traditional Hausa architecture with foreign influences. 2006 hit the Nigerien Ministry of Culture of UNESCO, the recording of mosques in the area of ​​Tahoua region in the list of world cultural heritage before and raised above all the cultural significance of the Great Mosque of Yaama forth.

Economy and infrastructure

In Badaguichiri there is a large cattle market and seven other weekly markets. The economic cornerstone of the rural community are the livestock and above all the cultivation of millet, sorghum and cowpea. Badaguichiri is located on the paved national highway 29, which connects the village to the regional capital of Tahoua in the north and in the south meets in Tsernaoua on the National Road 1. The health and education is insufficiently developed.

Personalities

• Souley Abdoulaye ( born 1956 ), politician and bank managers, prime minister from 1994 to 1995