Yaouri

Region

Yaouri is a rural municipality in the Department Kantché in Niger.

Geography

Yaouri is located at the junction of Great Landscape Sudan Sahel. The neighboring municipalities are Matamèye in the north, Dogo in the east, in the southeast Bandé, Kwaya in the south, southwest and Kourni Sassoumbroum in the west. The municipality is divided into 28 administrative villages, 29 traditional villages, 40 hamlets and six storage. The main town of the country church is the administrative village Yaouri.

History

The rural community Yaouri went out in 2002 as part of a nationwide administrative reform a part of the canton Kantché.

Population

At the 2001 census Yaouri had 24,793 inhabitants. For the year 2010 33.663 inhabitants were calculated. In Yaouri members of the mainly Agropastoralismus operated Fulbe subgroup Daourawa live.

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.