Sassoumbroum

Region

Sassoumbroum (also: Sassoumbouroum, Tsatsoumbroum ) is a rural municipality in the department of Magaria in Niger.

Geography

Sassoumbroum lies in the large landscape Sudan and bordered to the south and west by the neighboring state of Nigeria. The neighboring communities in Niger are Dan Barto, Kourni and Yaouri in the north and Kwaya and Yékoua in the east. The municipality is divided into 36 administrative villages, 34 traditional villages, 27 hamlets and 13 stock. The main town of the rural community is the administrative village Sassoumbroum (also: Tsatsoumbroum ). In the municipality the Wadi Korama has its origin.

History

Sassoumbroum developed in the 1920s to an economically significant regional center. The rural community Sassoumbroum went as an administrative unit 2002 through the course of a nationwide administrative reform from the western part of the canton Magaria.

Population

At the 2001 census Sassoumbroum had 40 769 inhabitants. For the year 2010 55.354 inhabitants were calculated. In Sassoumbroum especially farming life be operated Hausa and Fulani on Agropastoralismus specialized.

Economy and infrastructure

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