నైజర్: కూర్పుల మధ్య తేడాలు

 

నైజరు ప్రపంచంలోని అత్యధిక ఫలదీకరణ శాతం కలిగి ఉంది (2017 అంచనాల ప్రకారం మహిళకు 6.49 జననాలు)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2127rank.html |title=The World Factbook |publisher=Cia.gov |date= |accessdate=28 October 2018}}</ref>). నైజరు జనాభాలో దాదాపు సగం (49%) 15 సంవత్సరాల లోపు వయస్కులు ఉన్నారు. ప్రసవసమయంలో తల్లి మరణాల శాతం ప్రపంచంలో 11 వ స్థానంలో ఉంది. ప్రతి 1,00,000 మందిలో 820 మంది మరణిస్తున్నారు. <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2223rank.html?countryName=Niger&countryCode=ng&regionCode=afr&rank=11#ng |title=The World Factbook |publisher=Cia.gov |date= |accessdate=25 April 2014}}</ref> 2006 గణాంకాల ఆధారంగా 1,00,000 మంది వ్యక్తులకు 3 వైద్యులు మరియు 22 నర్సులు ఉన్నారని భావిస్తున్నారు.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.angellite.org.uk/where-we-work.html|title=Niger|accessdate=20 May 2012|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111123142319/http://www.angellite.org.uk/where-we-work.html|archivedate=23 November 2011|df=dmy-all}}</ref>

[[File:Zinder sultans horsemen festival.jpg|thumb|Horsemen at the traditional [[Ramadan]] festival at the [[Sultanate of Damagaram|Sultan's]] Palace in the [[Hausa people|Hausa]] city of [[Zinder]].]]

[[File:Ancient home zinder niger.jpg|thumb|A traditional home in [[Zinder]].]]

Until the 1990s, government and politics was inordinately dominated by [[Niamey]] and the [[Zarma people]] of the surrounding region. At the same time the plurality of the population, in the Hausa borderlands between [[Birni-N'Konni]] and [[Maine-Soroa]], have often looked culturally more to Hausaland in Nigeria than Niamey. Between 1996 and 2003, primary school attendance was around 30%,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/Niger_statistics.html |title=At a glance: Niger |accessdate=2007-06-22 |deadurl=bot: unknown |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20091130170853/http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/Niger_statistics.html |archivedate=30 November 2009 |df= }}</ref> including 36% of males and only 25% of females. Additional education occurs through [[madrasa]]s.

 

 

[[File:1997 274-5 Gerewol.jpg|thumb|upright=0.9|Participants in the [[Guérewol]] perform the ''Guérewol'' dance, 1997.]]

The Guérewol festival is a traditional Wodaabe cultural event that takes place in [[Abalak]] in [[Tahoua Region|Tahoua region]] or [[In-Gall|In'Gall]] in [[Agadez Region]]. It is an annual traditional courtship ritual practiced by the Wodaabe (Fula) people of Niger. During this ceremony, young men dressed in elaborate ornamentation and made up in traditional face painting gather in lines to dance and sing, vying for the attention of marriageable young women. The Guérewol festival is an internationally attraction and was featured in films and magazines as prominent as the [[National Geographic (magazine)|National Geographic]].

 

 

"La Cure salée" (English: Salt Cure) is a yearly festival of Tuareg and Wodaabe nomads in [[In-Gall|In'Gall]] in [[Agadez Region]] traditionally to celebrate the end of the rainy season. For three days, the festival features a parade of [[Tuareg]] camel riders followed with camel and horse races, songs, dances, and storytelling.

 

Niger began developing diverse media in the late 1990s. Prior to the Third Republic, Nigeriens only had access to tightly controlled state media.<ref name=sainforeport2002fr>[http://africa.ifj.org/pdfs/sainforeport2002fr.pdf SEMINAIRE-ATELIER DE FORMATION ET DE SENSIBILISATION "Mission de service public dans les entreprises de presse d’Etat et privée"]. Historical introduction to Press Laws, in conference proceedings, Organised by FIJ/SAINFO/LO-TCO CCOG. NIAMEY, June 2002.</ref> Now Niamey contains scores of newspapers and magazines; some, like ''Le Sahel'', are government operated, while many are critical of the government.<ref>[http://www.afdevinfo.com/htmlreports/ng82.html Media in Niger: the African Development Information Database] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091213180757/http://www.afdevinfo.com/htmlreports/ng82.html |date=13 December 2009 }}.</ref><ref>[http://www.gret.org/parma/uk2/ressource/edm/pdf/niger.pdf Medias Status Report: Niger] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090304011302/http://www.gret.org/parma/uk2/ressource/edm/pdf/niger.pdf |date=4 March 2009 }}. Summary document written for the African Media Partners Network. Guy-Michel Boluvi, Les Echos du Sahel Niamey, January 2001.</ref> Radio is the most important medium, as television sets are beyond the buying power of many of the rural poor, and illiteracy prevents print media from becoming a mass medium.<ref name="Geels2006">Geels, Jolijn. ''Niger''. Bradt UK/Globe Pequot Press USA, 2006. {{ISBN|978-1-84162-152-4}}</ref>