Aguie

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official_name = Aguié
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footnotes = Aguie (var. Aguié, Agyé) is a town and capital of the Aguie Department in southern Niger, 43 miles [ [http://www.guardian.co.uk/gall/0,,1532450,00.html Photo essay on Niger Food Crisis:Help at hospital] . London Guardian, 2005-07-24. Photo by: Schalk van Zuydam/AP.] east of the nation's second largest city, Maradi.

Administrative structure

Aguié Commune is the seat of the Department of the same name, one of five second level administrative subdivisions of the Maradi Region. Among the Commune subdivisions within the Department are the "Rural Communes" of Saé Saboua, Arnagou and Giratawa. Nearby villages include Dan Kiri, Dan Gao, Gamji Karama, Dan Rago, Doromawa, Guidan Tonio, and Guidan Kodao.

Population

A primarily Hausa populated region, it is bordered to the south by Katsina State, Nigeria. The 2007 estimated population of Aguié Department was 270,000. [See below: "Assisted regeneration programme", IFAD/United Nations, November 2007.
This is following a partial UN funded development census of the region from 2005. See: [http://www.ruralpovertyportal.org/french/regions/africa/ner/voices.htm Villagers and aid workers alike benefit from census project in Niger] , IFAD/United Nations, August 2007. ] The Maradi Region is one of the most densely populated areas of Niger, home to 20 per cent of the country’s population, mostly small farmers in rural settlements. [See "Villagers and aid workers alike benefit from census project in Niger", IFAD/United Nations, August 2007.]

Transport

Aguié lies on the main east-west highway between Maradi and Zinder. [ [http://www.friendsofniger.org/newsletters/Cex-mar02.html Friends of Niger] , March 2002 newsletter.] It is also 30 miles north of the city of Katsina, Nigeria, in an area of much cross-border trade and population movement. [For history of the Hausa border regions, see:

*James Decalo. Historical Dictionary of Niger. Scarecrow Press/ Metuchen. NJ - London (1979) ISBN 0810812290
*Finn Fuglestad. A History of Niger: 1850-1960. Cambridge University Press (1983) ISBN 0521252687]

2005-06 Niger food crisis

Aguié Department was particularly hard hit in the 2005-06 Niger food crisis, and the town became a center for aid efforts. International rural health and development projects have continued to be based there. [ [http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/news/2005/07-27-2005.cfm Barely Open, Already Full: Feeding Centers in Niger] , Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). July 27, 2005.
[http://www.thegildersleeve.org/projectgrants/p_projects_view.asp?project_lookup=all&sort_year=yes Projects Funded] , Virginia Gildersleeve International Fund, (nd).
[http://www.undispatch.com/archives/2005/08/index.php Niger: Therapeutic milk is saving children’s lives] , UNICEF, Kent Page, AGUIE, Niger, 10 August 2005.
[http://www.ifad.org/climate/perspectives/niger.htm Assisted regeneration programme helps trees grow in Niger] , IFAD/United Nations, November 2007.
[http://www.ifad.org/french/operations/pa/ner/i597ne/index.htm Projet de promotion de l’initiative locale pour le développement à Aguié (PPILDA)] , IFAD/United Nations Project I-597-NE. 2007.
[http://www.ifad.org/french/operations/pa/ner/i292ne/index.htm Projet de développement rural de la région d’Aguié (PDRAA)] , IFAD/United Nations Project I-292-NE. 1991.
[http://www.prolinnova.net/Niger/paiip.php Establishment and evolution of partnership in PAIIP,Aguié Project, Niger] , Guéro Chaibou, Adam Toudou and Alessandro Meschinelli: “Project to Support Farmer Initiatives and Innovations”, Prolinnova. March 2002. ]

References

* [http://www.fallingrain.com/world/NG/4/Aguie.html Aguie: FallingRain.com] .