Ouro Gueladjo

Region

Ouro Guélédjo ( official spelling, also Ouro Guéladio ) is a rural municipality in the department of Say in Niger.

Geography

Ouro Guélédjo is located at the junction of the Sahel to large landscape Sudan. South of the town is the river bed of the Goroubi, a tributary of the Niger. The municipality is divided into 22 administrative villages and 36 hamlets. The main town of the rural community is the administrative village Guéladio (also Guéladjo ). Ouro Guélédjo shares land borders with the neighboring country of Burkina Faso. The neighboring communities in Niger are Bitinkodji in the north, Say and Tamou in the east and Makalondi and Torodi in the West.

History

In Ouro Guélédjo is an archaeological site. Here iron melting devices were discovered with large, rounded lumps of clinker.

The town was founded in the second half of the 19th century by the children of Mohamed Guéladio. Mohamed Guéladio originally came from Massina and was exiled after he had lost to in the fight against Tukulor. The ruler of Say converted him to Islam and gave him a small territory in Torodi. 1854 Mohamed Guéladio was invited by Al- Hajj Omar after Massina return, but he died on the voyage. Mohamed Guéladios children remained in Say and founded the village of Ouro Guélédjo, which they named after their father.

Guéladio Ibrahim, one of the sons, graduated in 1891 with Colonel Monteil a contract that set his dominion Ouro Guélédjo under French protectorate, and received in 1896 the French mission Hourst by Émile Auguste Léon Hourst amicable. He also maintained close relations with the kingdom of Bambara.

Population

At the 2001 census Ouro Guélédjo had 19,506 inhabitants. For the year 2010 25.813 inhabitants were calculated.

Economy and infrastructure

The municipality is located in a zone is operated in the rain-fed agriculture. In 2000 the charity SOS Sahel International established a maternity hospital in Ouro Guélédjo and created a nationwide supply of health facilities.