Dogo (Niger)

Region

Dogo is a rural municipality in the Department Mirriah in Niger.

Geography

Dogo is located at the junction of Great Landscape Sudan Sahel. The neighboring municipalities are Droum, Kolleram and Zinder in the north, the east Gouna, Bandé and Dungass in the south and Matamèye and Yaouri in the West. The municipality is divided into 70 administrative villages, 86 hamlets and four bearings. The main town of the rural community is Dogo, consisting of the administrative villages of Dogo Dogo Chaibou and Maïkassoua.

The Forêt de classée Korama at Wadi Korama is a 900 acre protected nature woodland area in the municipality of Dogo. The protected status was made in 1952.

History

The seat of power Dogo was his Sultanate Zinder connected to 1820 by Sultan Sélimane dan Tintouma, which belonged to the kingdom of Bornu. 1899 France occupied the Sultanate of Zinder, in which it remained until 1960 for the independence of Niger. The rural community of Dogo went out in 2002 as part of a nationwide administrative reform from the Canton Dogo. Floods in 2008 over 1300 inhabitants suffered material damage. It 185 houses were completely destroyed and flooded 74 fields.

Population

At the 2001 census Dogo had 61 551 inhabitants. For the year 2010 83.570 inhabitants were calculated. In Dogo members of the mainly Agropastoralismus operated Tuareg subgroups Iguimirdan and Tafazarak live.

Economy and infrastructure

The community is located at the junction of the zone of rain -fed agriculture of the north to the zone of the irrigation field economy of the South. By Dogo National Road 11, which connects the village to the regional capital of Zinder to the north and the border with Nigeria to the south runs.