Goure

Region

Gouré is a town and the capital of the eponymous department Gouré in Niger.

Geography

Gouré located in the Sahel region, some 160 kilometers east of the regional capital of Zinder. The neighboring municipalities are Gamou and trowel in the north, Goudoumaria in the east, Boune in the south, Guidiguir the southwest, Damagaram Takaya in the west and Moa in the northwest. The urban area is divided into eight districts, 66 administrative villages, 70 traditional villages, 33 hamlets and five storage divided. The district Sabon Gari hot aisle Amari, Garin Malam, Garin Toudou, Kaigamari, Limandi Jaberane, Moustaphari I, II and Moustaphari Talbari.

History

Was Gouré in the first half of the 19th century the capital of Mounio, a province of the kingdom of Bornu. The ruler Mounios was at that time Kosso, a son Ibrahim from Boune. Kosso fortified the city and founded a market which gained great importance for the slave trade. When the German explorer Heinrich Barth visited 1853 Gouré, lived about 9,000 residents in the city, surrounded by irrigated gardens. During an attack the neighboring province of Zinder Gouré 1863 destroyed. The reconstruction lasted from 1865 to 1868. Mounio In 1874 it was annexed by Sultan Ténimoun dan Sélimane of Zinder as a province. France took Moussa in 1903, the last ruler Mounios, from exile and taught for him after 29 years of interruption a traditional seat of power in a Gouré. The early 1930s was Jacques Gosselin, who later became governor of Niger, district commander of Gouré.

Population

In the 1977 census Gouré had 7,612 inhabitants in the census in 1988 8,951 inhabitants in the 2001 census 13,308 inhabitants. For the year 2010 65.987 inhabitants were, by an increase in the municipal area is calculated. In the multi-ethnic city, among others, Kanuri, Arabs, Tubu, Fulani and Tuareg live. These include members of the mainly agriculture based Kanuri subgroup manga, especially the Agropastoralismus operated Kanuri subgroup Dagra and specialized in remote pasture Fulani subgroups Bornanko'en, Oudah'en and Wodaabe and Tuareg subgroups Kanimatane and Ikeshkazan.

Culture and sights

On a small hill on the thoroughfare is the prefecture of the department.

Economy and infrastructure

The city has a rural character. The population lives mainly from agriculture and animal husbandry. Gouré is the seat of the Tribunal d' Instance, one of the nation's 30 civil courts, which is below the ten civil courts of first instance (Tribunal de Grande Instance ) are.

Gouré is located on the National Highway 1, which connects the city with the regional capitals Diffa and Zinder. In Gouré a civilian airport located with unpaved airstrip, the Gouré Airport ( ICAO code: DRZG ).

Personalities

• Mamadou Ousseini (* 1953), Officer and Secretary of Defense