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Diadjibine Gandéga

Coordinates: 15°44′56″N 12°28′58″W / 15.74884°N 12.48276°W / 15.74884; -12.48276
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Diadjibine Gandéga
Arabic: انجاجبني
Commune and village
Diadjibine Gandéga is located in Mauritania
Diadjibine Gandéga
Diadjibine Gandéga
Location in Mauritania
Coordinates: 15°44′56″N 12°28′58″W / 15.74884°N 12.48276°W / 15.74884; -12.48276
Country Mauritania
RegionGorgol
DepartmentM'Bout
Government
 • MayorAbdou Yamadou Timera (2023-2028)
Area
 • Total148 sq mi (384 km2)
Population
 (2013)
 • Total10,597
Time zoneUTC±00:00 (GMT)

Diadjibine Gandéga (Arabic: انجاجبني الشرفه), also written Njabni, N'Djabni etc. is a village and rural commune in Mauritania. As of 2013 it had a population of 10,597 people.[1]

Geography

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Diadjibine Gandéga is a commune in the M'Bout moughataa (department), one of four departments in the Gorgol wilaya (administrative region).[2] It is one of the nine rural communes that make up the M'Bout department. The sprawling district as a whole has more than 120,000 people.[3]

The M'Bout region of southern Mauritania is in the Sahel. The climate is hot, with low rainfall of 150 to 350 millimetres (5.9 to 13.8 in) during the July-October rainy season and sparse vegetation. It has seen high levels of migration of workers to Nouakchott, West Africa, Europe and America in search of a better life.[2]

Diadjibine borders the commune of M'Bout the north, Tarenguet Ehel Moul to the east, to the south east by Ouldmbouni and Ajoueir, and to the south and west by Edebaye Ehl Guelay.

Events

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The village of Diadjibine is run by the Gandéga, a Malinke people. It was founded around 1905 by Samba Mantchy Gandega. It is located on the Nouakchott-Sélibaby axis.[4]

Diadjibine Gandéga was established as a commune by the ordinance of October 20, 1987, which established the communes of Mauritania.[citation needed]

In 1989 there were inter-ethnic massacres between Moors and Black Africans in Diadjibine, causing some Black residents to flee to Europe.[5]

The Peace Corps gave a creative art workshop in Diadjibine in February 2003 to a group of ten boys and ten girls aged 12–18 years. For some of the students, this was the first time they had used colored pencils. The culmination was creation of a 4 by 18 feet (1.2 by 5.5 m) mural to be placed on a wall of the junior high school library, which was to be officialy opened in April 2003.[6]

In September 2007 the village experience torrential rains, whch caused more than 50 houses to collapse. The rains were said to be the most intense on record for one hundred years. Some families lost everything.[7]

On 25 June 2024 Outouma Antoine Souleymane Soumare, presidential candidate, stopped in the village of Njabni, where he gave a detailed presentation of his electoral program to a group of the village residents.[8]

References

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  1. ^ "Diadibene Gandega". Citypopulation.de. Retrieved 1 August 2024.
  2. ^ a b Wilaya de Gorgol.
  3. ^ مقاطعىة امبود: حان الوقت لرفع سقف التمثيل الإداري.
  4. ^ Le nom de vos chefs de villages.
  5. ^ Mazurier 1998.
  6. ^ Creativity in Life.
  7. ^ Message de demande d’aide.
  8. ^ ئارئاسيات 2024: المترشح اتوما انتوان سليمان سومارى.

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