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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.
Upper Senegal and Niger (French: Haut Sénégal et Niger) was a colony in French West Africa, created on 21 October 1904 from colonial Senegambia and Niger by the decree "For the Reorganisation of the general government of French West Africa".
Over time upstream erosion by the lower Niger resulted in stream capture of the upper Niger by the lower Niger. [ 22 ] The northern part of the river, known as the Niger bend , is an important area because it is the major river and source of water in that part of the Sahara.
Guinea is often subdivided into "Lower Guinea" and "Upper Guinea". Lower Guinea is one of the most densely populated regions of Africa, covering southern Nigeria, Benin, Togo and stretching into Ghana. It includes the coastal regions as well as the interior. Upper Guinea is far less densely populated and stretches from Côte d'Ivoire to Senegal.
Early Arab geographers believed the upper Senegal River and the upper Niger River were connected to each other, and formed a single river flowing from east to west, which they called the "Western Nile". [7] (In fact, some of the headwaters of the Senegal River are near the Niger River in Mali and Guinea.)
The country of some 25 million people is one of the poorest in the world and the harsh travel and The post Coup leaders in Niger have appeared to gain upper hand, analysts say appeared first on ...
Kouroussa and the surrounding region is the centre of the Hamana-Malinke Mande sub-group -- "Hamana" being the name for the region, while the Malinke are the major Mande speaking ethnic group of the upper Niger valley.
Upper Senegal and Niger: Senegambia and Niger was a short-lived administrative unit of the colonial French West Africa possessions, in the region of present-day Niger