N'guigmi Department

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N'Guigmi is a department in the region of Diffa in Niger.

Geography

The Department is located in the southeast of the country, bordering Chad. It consists of the township N'Guigmi and the rural community Kabléwa. The eponymous capital of the department is N'Guigmi.

History

After independence in 1960, Niger's territory into 32 districts ( circonscriptions ) was divided. One of them was the district N'Guigmi. 1964 was divided into seven administrative reform Niger departments, the predecessor of the later regions, and 32 arrondissements, the predecessor of the later departments. As part of the district N'Guigmi was converted to the district N'Guigmi, the Canton Komadougou, was slammed by then part of the district N'Guigmi, the new district Diffa. Plans from the 1960s to extract N'Gourti as a separate district from N'Guigmi were never implemented. In 1998, the former arrondissements of Niger in departments were converted, each headed by an appointed Council of Ministers is prefect. The structure of the department in communities exists since the year 2002. Previously, it consisted of the urban center N'Guigmi, the Canton N'Guigmi and a rest zone. 2011 N'Gourti was dissolved as a separate department from the Department N'Guigmi. The 2013 appointed Prefect of N'Guigmi is Barmou Aboubakar Nakata.

Population

The Department has N'Guigmi 2012 73.073 inhabitants according to the census. In the 2001 census, before the dissolution of N'Gourti, there were 55 047 inhabitants, 28 193 inhabitants in the census in 1988 and in the census in 1977 32 277 inhabitants. The Department N'Guigmi is a main settlement area of ​​the Tubu in Niger. In N'Guigmi living members of the Daza, in addition to the TEDA one of two subgroups of the Tubu.