Inner Niger Delta information

The Inner Niger Delta, also known as the Macina or Masina, is the inland river delta of the Niger River. It is an area of fluvial wetlands, lakes and...

the Niger floods yearly; this begins in September, peaks in November, and finishes by May. An unusual feature of the river is the Inner Niger Delta, which...

relatively small state into an empire by conquering Timbuktu, Massina, the Inner Niger Delta, and Djenne. Sunni Ali was born the son of Sonni Muhammad Da'o, who...

which includes Njaba River basin, holds over 35% of the oil wells in the Niger Delta states of Imo and Rivers.: 3  Urashi river as an ancient trade and cultural...

Fulbe founder of the Massina Empire (Diina of Hamdullahi) in the Inner Niger Delta, now the Mopti Region of Mali. He ruled as Almami from 1818 until...

prominent examples include the Inner Niger Delta, Peace–Athabasca Delta, the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta, and the Sistan delta of Iran. The Danube has...

productive agricultural area lies along the banks of the Niger River, the Inner Niger Delta and the southwestern region around Sikasso. The following...

self-identified Arma in Mali, mostly around Timbuktu, the middle Niger bend and the Inner Niger Delta.[citation needed] The 1590 expedition sent to conquer the...

Mopti (Bambara: ߡߏߕߌ tr. Moti) is a town and an urban commune in the Inner Niger Delta region of Mali. The town is the capital of the Mopti Cercle and the...

nineteenth-century Sunni Muslim caliphate in West Africa centered in the Inner Niger Delta of what is now the Mopti and Ségou Regions of Mali. It was founded...

Njaba River (also Njaba), in the Niger Delta Basin is a major tributary of Oguta Lake in Nigeria's South East Imo State. With 4.5m mean depth, the river...

Macina Empire (1818–1862), former state located in present-day Mali Inner Niger Delta, also known as Macina, the floodplain area in Mali once controlled...

The Niger Delta red colobus is black on top from the head to the rump, becoming orange-brown on the sides and outer legs. The undersides and inner legs...

northwest edge of the Inner Niger Delta, near the main channel of the Niger River. Niono is an important town of the Office du Niger irrigation scheme which...

house of straw) is a Mande language spoken by the Bozo people of the Inner Niger Delta in Mali. For Fishing, many Bozo are also found in other West African...

islands. It was once one of the major grasses cultivated in the Inner Niger Delta of the Niger River. It was cultivated by the Fulani people, who used the...

Nigeria, and shares boundaries with Anambra State, Delta State and Rivers State. It lies within the Lower Niger drainage basin. Oguta is the headquarters of...

praehensilis) in the Niger River basin between eastern Ghana and western Nigeria (northern Benin), rice (oryza glaberrima) in the Inner Niger Delta region of Mali...

southern part of the country, 280 km east of Bamako. Banankoni is part of the Niger River drainage basin. Banankoni in Geonames.org (cc-by); post updated 2012-11-08;...

southernmost area. During this time, flooding of the Niger River is common, creating the Inner Niger Delta. The vast northern desert part of Mali has a hot...

Hamdullahi, was an early 19th-century Fulani Jihad state centered in the Inner Niger Delta area of present-day Mali. This West African state was founded by Seku...

mean annual precipitation between around 200 and 700 mm (such as Niamey, Niger) and the Sahelian-Sudanese climate, with mean annual precipitation between...

since 1964 in the Inner Niger Delta. The high river levels could have been exacerbated by uncommon extreme rain events throughout the Niger river basin, such...