Yelwa

Yelwa wani gari ne a Jihar Kebbi, Najeriya a kan Kogin Neja da babbar hanyar A1. Sau da yawa ana kiran garin "Yelwa, Yauri", bayan Masarautar da Karamar Hukumar da ke ciki, kuma ba Yelwa ba ne inda Yelwa Massacre ya faru a 2004 a Jihar Plateau. Yelwa ita ce babban birni kuma birni mafi girma a Masarautar Yauri. Yelwa tana da yawan mutane 8,000 a shekarar 2010, mafi yawansu Musulmai ne na Hausa.

Yelwa ita ce cibiyar kasuwa da cibiyar kasuwanci ta Masarautar Yauri.  Baya ga kasuwanci, tattalin arzikinta yana kewaye da noma. Manyan amfanin gona na fitarwa sun hada da albasa, shinkafa, da auduga, kodayake Yelwa kuma tana samar da adadi mai yawa na sorghum, millet, cowpeas, peanuts, sukari, shea nuts, taba, kola nuts, peppers, wake, kifi, shanu, da guinea fowl. Yawancin manoma (kashi 79.2) a yankin Yelwa manoma ne masu cin gashin kansu, kuma mafi yawan suna hayar ƙasar da suke noma ko masu raba gona.

 Tarihi 
Yelwa ta kasance babban birnin Masarautar Yauri tun 1888, lokacin da aka ƙaura babban birnin daga Bin Yauri bayan yakin basasa. A shekara ta 1896, Kamfanin Royal Niger ya kafa wani wurin kasuwanci a Yauri. Birtaniya sun mamaye garin a shekara ta 1901.

Wani ɓangare na Yelwa ya cika da ambaliyar ruwa ta hanyar kirkirar madatsar ruwan Kainji a shekarar 1986.  Kusan rabin mazaunan Yauri, gami da yawa a Yelwa, sun yi gudun hijira ta hanyar gina madatsar ruwan Kainji,  wanda ya yi mummunar tasiri ga aikin gona a yankin.Salamone, Franck (1975). "The drug problem in a small emirate in northern Nigeria". Journal des Africanistes. 45 (1): 187–191. doi:10.3406/jafr.1975.2189.

A shekara ta 2004, sama da mutane 700 sun mutu a jerin rikice-Rikicin addinai.

A ranar 16 ga watan Fabrairun 2018, an sanya wa wani rami na Martian suna bayan Yelwa. 

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