Dessa (Niger)
Region
Dessa is a rural municipality in the Department Tilabéri in Niger.
Geography
Dessa is located in the Sahel is to the north west of the regional capital Tilabéri on the Niger River. The neighboring municipalities are Dessas Ayérou in the north, Anzourou in the east, and Bibiyergou Sinder in the south and Bankilaré, Kokorou and MEHANA in the West. The municipality is divided into 17 administrative villages, a traditional village and 73 hamlets. The main town of the rural community is the administrative village Dessa.
History
The area of the canton Dessa was extended in 1933 to the administrative villages Diamona, Katanga ( Sassalé ) Nassiré, Tondia and Wali. These were settlements of Bella, former slaves of Rhattafan, which now came under the Kurtey - local chief of Dessa. This intensified the rivalry between Rhattafan and Kurtey. Even into 1960, it moved in front of the Kurtey canton chief of security, on the island rather than in the main town Dessa Dessa to reside. The Canton Dessa was converted as part of a nationwide administrative reform in the rural community of Dessa 2002. Attempts of Rhattafan, in the course of solving the Bella village and its surrounding areas Tondia from Dessa failed.
Population
At the 2001 census Dessa had 31 028 inhabitants. For the year 2010 41.069 inhabitants were calculated.
Economy and infrastructure
Important infrastructural facilities in the municipal area are not in the main town Dessa, but in the administrative village famale in the center of the township. The reason for this is the distrust of the former canton chiefs of Dessa against French rule, he did not want to know close to his residence. Therefore, the school opened in 1955, which opened in 1956 and the infirmary opened in 1960 agricultural department of the rural community are all in famale.
The municipality is located in a zone is operated in the Agropastoralismus. By Dessa National Road 1, which connects the village to the capital Niamey in the south and the border with Mali in the north runs.