Tondikandia

Region

Tondikandia is a rural municipality in the Department of Filingue in Niger.

Geography

Tondikandia is located northeast of the capital Niamey on Dallol Bosso in the southern Sahel. The neighboring municipalities are Dingazi and Filingue in the northwest, and Imanan Kourfeye Centre in the northeast, Loga and Tagazar in the south and the east Simiri. The municipality is divided into 118 administrative villages, three traditional villages and 89 hamlets. The main town of the rural community is the administrative village Damana.

History

Defined by many valleys and gorges and inhabited by Zarma area of Tondikandia was before the arrival of the French at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries a refuge for bandits who robbed the villages along the river Niger. End of the 19th century, the warrior Karanta prevailed as ruler of Tondikandia. The French colonial administration set up a canton in Tondikandia and recognized in 1901 as Karanta canton chief. The rural community Tondikandia was founded in 2002 at a nationwide administrative reform from the Canton Tondikandia / Damana forth.

Population

Around half the population are Zarma. Other ethnic groups in the municipality include Tuareg, Fulani and, in lesser numbers, Hausa. At the 2001 census Tondikandia had 84 223 inhabitants. For the year 2010 111.459 inhabitants were calculated.

Economy and infrastructure

Tondikandia is located in a zone is operated in the rain-fed agriculture. Of economic importance is also the labor migration abroad. One of the biggest infrastructural problems in the community include lack of personnel in the health care and by erosion defective become waterholes.

Personalities

• Seyni Kountché (1931-1987), President of Niger, born in the village Fandou Béri in the municipality of Tondikandia