Guidan Sori

Region

Guidan Sori is a rural municipality in the Department guidan Roumdji in Niger.

Geography

Guidan Sori is the major landscape Sudan and is bordered to the southwest by the neighboring state of Nigeria. The neighboring communities in Niger are guidan Roumdji in the north, the northeast and Chadakori Tibiri in the south. The municipality is divided into 63 administrative villages, three traditional villages, 98 hamlets and six storage. The main town of the rural community is the administrative village guidan Sori.

History

The to guidan Sori belonging village Toda was named the " Toda affair " ( affaire Toda ) in 1991. Thus a massacre of Hausa farmers of several villages is called, who allied themselves due to land- use conflicts against a camp of Fulbe pastoralists and there more than one hundred persons killed after they had put their homes on fire.

The rural community guidan Sori went out in 2002 as part of a nationwide administrative reform from the Canton guidan Sori.

Population

At the 2001 census guidan Sori had 66 969 inhabitants. For the year 2010 90.496 inhabitants were calculated. The administrative village in the municipality of Fissataou guidan Sori is a traditional center of Azna.

Economy and infrastructure

The eastern part of the municipality is located in an area in which predominates the rainfed agriculture. The west part of the zone of the irrigation field economy.