Issawane

Region

Issawane is a rural municipality in the Department Mayahi in Niger.

Geography

Issawane lies in the Sahel. The neighboring communities are El Allassane Maïreyrey in the north, Ourafane in the northeast, Maïjirgui the southeast, Kanan - Bakaché in the south and Mayahi in the West. The municipality is divided into 26 administrative villages, 15 hamlets and six storage. The main town of the rural community is the administrative village Issawane (also: Kaoura Issawane ).

History

Before the arrival of the French at the turn of the 19th to 20th century Issawane part of the independent state of Katsina. The rural community Issawane was founded in 2002 at a nationwide administrative reform a part of the canton of Kanan - Bakaché forth.

Population

At the 2001 census Issawane had 29 987 inhabitants. For the year 2010 40.508 inhabitants were calculated. The largest ethnic groups in the multi-ethnic community are Hausa, Fulani and Tuareg who communicate with each other in Hausa.

Economy and infrastructure

In Issawane Agropastoralismus is operated. The agriculture is hampered by lack of fallow periods, soil depletion and uncertain rainfall. The livestock suffers from inadequate pasture and lack of supplementary animal feedingstuffs. There is no road network, which increases the remoteness of the rural community. The only health center in the main town is small and outdated. There are 17 primary schools in Issawane, in some villages, only a few children, particularly few girls regularly visit the school.