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The National Park of Upper Niger is a national park in Guinea that was gazetted in January 1997 with a core area of 554 km 2 (214 sq mi). [1] The park protects important tracts of forest and savannah , and is considered a conservation priority for West Africa as a whole.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 15 February 2025. Major river in West Africa Niger River Fleuve Niger (French) Joliba (Maninka) Jeluba (Bambara) Mayo Ɓalewo 𞤃𞤢𞥄𞤴𞤮 𞤄𞤢𞤤𞤫𞤮 (Fula) Egerew ⴻⴳⴻⵔⴻⵡ (Tamasheq) Issa Beri (Zarma) Kwara (Hausa) Toru Beni (Ijo languages) Ọya (Yoruba) Óshimiri/ Oshimili ...
Nubia (Lower Nubia) (Upper Nubia) Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt; The Maghreb is a region of northwest Africa encompassing the coastlands and Atlas Mountains of Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia. The Sahara Desert is the massive sparsely populated region in North Africa that contains the world's largest hot deserts
On 1 January 1912, the military territory of Niger was split off from Upper Senegal and Niger, [4] and was erected into a colony in 1922. Between November 1915 and February 1917, the Colony of Upper Senegal and Niger witnessed vastly popular, temporarily successful, and sustained armed opposition to the colonial government in its western Volta ...
Each of Niger's regions are subdivided into departments and communes.As of 2005, there were 36 départements, divided into 265 communes, 122 cantons and 81 groupements.The latter two categories cover all areas not covered by urban communes (population over 10000) or rural communes (total population 13 million), and are governed by the department, whereas communes have had elected councils and ...
According to The Peoples of Africa, Kissi tradition considers that before the seventeenth century, they inhabited the Upper Niger region.Supposedly, they lived south of the Futa Jallon until the Yalunka people expelled them.
The July 26 coup is seen as a major blow to many Western nations, which viewed Niger as one of its last partners in the conflict-riddled Sahel region south of the Sahara Desert that they could ...
Niger, [a] officially the Republic of the Niger, [b] is a landlocked country in West Africa.It is a unitary state bordered by Libya to the northeast, Chad to the east, Nigeria to the south, Benin and Burkina Faso to the southwest, Mali to the west, and Algeria to the northwest.