Malawa (Niger)

Region

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

Geography

Malawa is located at the junction of Great Landscape Sahel and Sudan to the southeast to the neighboring state of Nigeria. The neighboring communities in Niger are Gouchi in the north, Boune in the northeast, Dogo Dogo in the southwest and Dungass in the northwest. The municipality is divided into 79 administrative villages, five traditional villages, 63 hamlets and nine stock. The main town of the country church is the administrative village Malawa (also: Mallaoua ). In the municipality the Wadi Korama ends.

History

The French colonial administration set up the beginning of the 20th century populated by Kanuri Malawa a one canton. 2002 emerged the rural community Malawa as part of a nationwide administrative reform from the Canton Malawa. Since 2011 part of the rural community not to Magaria Department, but for the newly established Department Dungass.

Population

At the 2001 census Malawa had 48,013 inhabitants. For the year 2010 65.195 inhabitants were calculated. In Malawa live alongside members of the Kanuri especially Agropastoralismus operated Fulbe subgroup Daourawa and specialized in remote pasture Fulani subgroups Bornanko'en and Katchinanko'en.

Economy and infrastructure

The municipality is located in that narrow zone along the border with Nigeria, ranging from Malawa Tounouga to the west and is operated in irrigated crop production for cash crops.