Dogo-Dogo

Region

Dogo Dogo (also: Dogo Dogo ) is a rural municipality in the Department Dungass in Niger.

Geography

Dogo Dogo is the major landscape Sudan and shares land borders with the neighboring state of Nigeria. The neighboring communities in Niger are Dantchiao in the west, the north and Dungass Malawa in the east. The municipality is divided into 60 administrative villages, 21 traditional villages, hamlets and twelve 23 stock. The main town of the rural community is the administrative village of Dogo Dogo.

The lowlands of Dogo Dogo is densely populated and has high ratios for Niger average annual rainfall of 600 mm. The landscape is dominated by tall acacia.

History

Located in the municipality of Dogo Dogo administrative village Toumbi was until 1864 the capital of the emirate Gumel. The rural community of Dogo Dogo went as an administrative unit 2002 through the course of a nationwide administrative reform from the southern part of the canton Dungass. Since 2011 part of the rural community not to Magaria Department, but for the newly established Department Dungass.

Population

At the 2001 census Dogo Dogo had 29 959 inhabitants. For the year 2010 40.679 inhabitants were calculated. The population is made up of mud-brick houses in Hausa and Kanuri living as well as living in straw huts Fulani and Tuareg together.

Economy and infrastructure

For personal use, are millet and sorghum, grown as sources of income sesame, cowpea and peanuts. There are five weekly markets in the municipality. Of economic importance is the cross-border trade with Nigeria. Dogo Dogo is located on the National Road 13, which connects the village to the township Magaria. Nevertheless, the relatively isolated location of the rural community is a barrier to economic development.