Kobenni (department)

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Kobenni
كوبني
Department
Hodh El Gharbi Departments.png
CountryFlag of Mauritania.svg  Mauritania
Area
 • Total
3,446 sq mi (8,924 km2)
Population
 (2023 census)
 • Total
135,158
 • Density39/sq mi (15/km2)

Kobenni is a department of Hodh El Gharbi Region in Mauritania. [1] [2]

Subsistence farming and livestock rearing are the main economic activities in the Kobenni Department. Kobenni's population comprises various ethnic groups, including Moors (Arab-Berber), Fulani (Pular), Soninke, Bambara, and Tuareg communities. Approximately 49% of the department's inhabitants live below the poverty line, defined as earning less than $1.90 per day. Plasmodium falciparum malaria is endemic to the Kobenni department. [3]

List of municipalities in the department

The Kobenni department is made up of following communes:

References

  1. ↑ "Wilaya de HODH GHARBI". mauritania.mr. Archived from the original on 24 May 2011.
  2. ↑ "Mauritania - Hodh el Gharbi". maplibrary. Retrieved 9 June 2018.
  3. ↑ Diallo, Sileye Mamadou; Bogreau, Hervé; Papa Mze, Nasserdine; Ould Ahmedou Salem, Mohamed Salem; Ould Khairy, Mohamed Lemine; Parola, Philippe; Basco, Leonardo; Ould Mohamed Salem Boukhary, Ali (December 2020). "Malaria epidemiology in Kobeni department, southeastern Mauritania from 2015 to 2017". Infectious Diseases of Poverty. 9 (1). doi: 10.1186/s40249-020-0634-5 . ISSN   2049-9957. PMC   7014702 . PMID   32046780.

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