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ethnologue.com Archived 2012-10-04 at the Wayback Machine: Ethnic and linguistic breakdown for Niger. OECD/ AEO 2007 Niger country study Archived 2009-02-25 at the Wayback Machine. The AGRHYMET Regional Centre (ARC), Niamey Office Archived 2008-02-19 at the Wayback Machine. Institute of the Permanent Interstate Committee for Drought Control in ...
A map of Niger Satellite image of Niger. Niger is a landlocked nation in West Africa located along the border between the Sahara and Sub-Saharan regions. It borders Nigeria and Benin to the south, Burkina Faso and Mali to the west, Algeria and Libya to the north and Chad to the east. Niger lies between latitudes 11° and 24°N, and longitudes 0 ...
The ethnic groups of Africa number in the thousands, with each ethnicity generally having their own language (or dialect of a language) and culture. The ethnolinguistic groups include various Afroasiatic , Khoisan , Niger-Congo , and Nilo-Saharan populations.
Pages in category "Ethnic groups in Niger" The following 31 pages are in this category, out of 31 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Ait-Awari tribe;
Outside the Maghreb, the Tuareg in Mali (early settlement near the old imperial capital of Timbuktu), [164] Niger, and Burkina Faso number some 850,000, [20] 1,620,000, [165] and 50,000, respectively. Tuaregs are a Berber ethnic group with a traditionally nomadic pastoralist lifestyle and are the principal inhabitants of the vast Sahara Desert ...
The estimates for the total population of Zarma people as of 2013 has been generally placed over three million, [13] but it varies. They constitute several smaller ethnic sub-groups, who were either indigenous to the era prior to the Songhai Empire and have assimilated into the Zarma people, or else are people of Zarma origins who have differentiated themselves some time in the precolonial ...
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The Maouri people are an ethnic group in western Africa. They are one of the major ethnic groups of Niger, and are concentrated around the Dallol Maouri (Maouri Valley) of the Niger River, extending from Matankari, near Niamey, to Gaya. They are a subgroup of the Hausa people, and speak both the Hausa language and the Djerma language (or Zarma ...