Matamey

Region

Matamèye (also: Matamaye, Matamey ) is a town in Niger and the de facto capital of the department Kantché.

Geography

Matamèye is located at the junction of Great Landscape Sudan Sahel. The neighboring municipalities are Doungou and Ichirnawa in the north, Dogo in the east, and Kourni Yaouri in the south and Kantché and Tsaouni in the West. The municipality is divided into six districts, 34 administrative villages, four traditional villages, 45 hamlets and two camps. There are two districts, called the Kanguiwa. The other four districts are Abidjan, Limanawa, Sabon Gari and N'Wala. In Matamèye there are a variety of plant life and several forested areas. Surface water and groundwater are available in abundance.

History

In the French colonial period Matamèye was initially an insignificant pastoral village in the canton Kantché. 1954 should be the traditional canton capital Kantché become the seat of a colonial official who should manage the newly created district Kantché. Since the native canton chief of Kantché these superiors but did not want to have in the same place, he left his official residence in the seven kilometers away Matamèye set. So the little village was unexpectedly to the district capital. 1964 emerged the district Matamèye from the district Matamèye. The district - capital benefited as such by several newly created infrastructural facilities such as a hospital, schools and a large weekly market. This was accompanied by a strong population growth.

In an administrative reform under President Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara in 1998, the arrondissements of Niger in departments were transformed with extended self-government. As part of this succeeded the canton chief of Kantché enforce the same year to supplement the administrative reform, converted according to the Department of Matamèye in the Department Kantché and was determined as the capital of Kantché. In fact, this supplement but was never put into practice and the administrative institutions of the department remained, not least because of the associated with relocation costs, in Matamèye. In 2002 Matamèye was raised as the only community in Niger, which is officially no departmental or regional capital, in the rank of a borough.

Population

In the 1977 census Matamèye had 7085 inhabitants in the census in 1988 11,151 inhabitants in the 2001 census 15,376 inhabitants. For the year 2010 56.186 inhabitants were, by an increase in the urban area, is calculated. In Matamèye members of the mainly agriculture based Hausa subgroup Katsinawa and specializing in Agropastoralismus Fulani subgroups Daourawa and Tchilanko'en live. In addition, Tuaregs live in the borough.

Economy and infrastructure

The inhabitants practice agriculture, livestock, forestry and trade and crafts. On the market of Matamèye is particularly traded with sugar cane, which is sold to the capital, Niamey. The city 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. Matamèye is located on the National Road 10, which connects the town with Garagoumsa and the border with Nigeria, and on the National Road leading to the Magaria 12 The National Road 10 is in good condition and is used for the cross-border long-distance transport between the cities of Zinder in Niger and Kano used in Nigeria.