Yaouri is a village and rural
commune in
Matameye Department
Matameye is a department of the Zinder Region in Niger
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Niger.
Geography
Yaouri is located at the segue of the
Sudan region
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to
Sahel
The Sahel (; ar, ساحل ' , "coast, shore") is a region in North Africa. It is defined as the ecoclimatic and biogeographic realm of transition between the Sahara to the north and the Sudanian savanna to the south. Having a hot semi-arid c ...
. The neighbouring communes are
Matameye
Matameye is a town and urban commune, administrative centre of the Matameye Department in Niger, with a population of 17,930 as of 2001. In 2005 a road was completed from Matameye to Takieta. Since 2011 many people have moved to Matameye from T ...
to the north,
Dogo to the east,
Bande to the southeast,
Kwaya to the south,
Sassoumbroum to the southwest and
Kourni to the west. The commune area is divided into 28 administrative villages, 29 traditional villages, 40 hamlets and six camps. The main town of the rural commune is the administrative village of Yaouri.
History
The rural commune of Yaouri was organised during the 2002 administrative reform from the part of the territory of
Kantche
Kantche is a village and rural commune in Niger
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Population
In the 2001 census, Yaouri had 24,793 inhabitants. In 2010, the commune had 33,663 inhabitants. Yaouri is home to
Fula people subgroup of Daourawa, who mainly engage in
agropastoralism.
Economy and infrastructure
The community is located in the narrow zone along the border with
Nigeria, stretching from
Tounounga in the west to
Malawa in the east, where irrigated agriculture for
cash crop
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s is practised.
References
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Zinder Region
Communes of Niger