Alambaré, Niger

The village is about 11 kilometres southeast of the main town of Tamou in the rural municipality of the same name, which belongs to the Say department in the Tillabéri region. Other settlements in the vicinity of Alambaré include Boulel in the northwest and Moli Haoussa in the southeast.^[2]

Its coordinates are 12°40'0" N and 2°13'52" E^[3] in DMS (Degrees Minutes Seconds) or 12.6667 and 2.23111 (in decimal degrees). Its UTM position is DQ10 and its Joint Operation Graphics reference is ND31-14.^[1]

Alambaré is in the middle of the 777.4 km² Tamou Game Reserve. There are many snake species in the village, such as: The African House Snake (Boaedon fuliginosus), White-lipped Snake (Crotaphopeltis hotamboeia), Dasypeltis gansi, West African Sand Snake (Echis ocellatus), Saharan Sand Boa (Eryx muelleri), and the ball python (Python regius).

The climate is hot and humid.^[4] The average temperature is 28 °C. The hottest month is May, at 32 °C, and the coldest is January, at 24 °C.^[5] The average rainfall is 750 millimeters per year. The wettest month is August, with 254 millimeters of rain, and the driest is March, with 1 millimeter.^[6]

Allambaré was founded at the beginning of the 20th century by a farmer named Yéliga Tchintaga. The name of the place comes from the Gourmanchéma sentence for: "place where you can have a good time".^[7]

According to research in the 1960s, the area between the Goroubi and Mékrou Rivers was the main centre of the neglected tropical disease onchocerciasis in Niger. The village of Allambaré was also affected. The Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project recorded a total of 122 violent conflict cases with 394 deaths in the Tillabéri region for the first quarter of 2024 and named Allambaré among the affected places.