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Bouza

Field	Value
official_name	Bouza
pushpin_map	Niger
pushpin_label_position	bottom
pushpin_mapsize	300
pushpin_map_caption	Location in Niger
subdivision_type	Country
subdivision_name	Niger
subdivision_type1	Region
subdivision_name1	Tahoua Region
subdivision_type2	Department
subdivision_name2	Bouza Department
subdivision_type3	Commune
subdivision_name3	Bouza
government_type	Seat of Department, Commune
population_as_of	2011
population_total	88225
utc_offset_DST	+1
coordinates
elevation_m	426
elevation_ft	1400

Bouza is a town in southwestern Niger. A town of eight thousand, it is the administrative center of Bouza Department, part of Tahoua Region.

Culture and situation

Bouza Department is in a largely Hausa-speaking area, which has become in the last century an area of marginal agriculture. There are also populations of Fula and Tuareg peoples who traditionally engage in nomadic and semi-nomadic animal husbandry: the Fula Woadabe with cattle and the Tuareg largely with camel. The major highway of the region, completed in the 1970s, bypassed Bouza Department to the west, heading south from Regional capitol Tahoua to the large southern city of Birni-N'Konni near the Nigerian border. The major (unpaved) road in the area -- RN16 runs through Bouza town from Madaoua to the south to Keita in the north, before reaching Tahoua in the northwest of the Region.

The town has a population estimated by the government of Niger in 2008 to be 8,375, up from 6,825 in the 2001 census and 5,496 in 1988. Bouza town is the site of a daily consumer market. There is a small Departmental Hospital in Bouza, and the town has been the site of international healthcare efforts in the wake of the 2005 Niger food crisis which hit Tahoua Region particularly badly.

References

[http://www.afdb.org/pls/portal/url/ITEM/08478C60E08AECB4E040C00A0C3D120D Projet d’aménagement des routes Tibiri-Dakoro et Madaoua-Bouza-Tahoua]{{dead link. (November 2016)
[http://www.resimao.org/html/en/Niger/market/218 Bouza, Niger] {{webarchive. link. (July 27, 2011 : West-African Market Information Network, Price Statistics from the official West African Market Price Agencies - online.)
link. (July 20, 2007 , INTERNATIONAL SERVICE PROGRAM, funded by the Zonta International Foundation,2004-2006 PROJECTS.)

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