Say, Niger

Say
Say Location in Niger
Coordinates: 13°06′N 2°22′E
Country	Niger
Region	Tillabéri Region
Department	Say Department
Elevation	180 m (590 ft)
Population  (2011)
• Total	61,960
• Summer (DST)	UTC+1 (WAT)

Say is a town in southwest Niger, situated on the Niger River. It is the capital of the Say Department in the Tillabéri Region. The municipality has 12,000 inhabitants, and its economy is dominated by agriculture, herding and small trade.

Overview

The Niger River at Say in the 1850s

The town houses the Islamic University of Niger (Université Islamique de Say), an institute of international scope, whose founding was decided following a meeting of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference in 1974, but that opened only in 1986. In 1996, it had 400 students, who paid fees much lower than those of the University of Niamey.[1] In Say there is also a forty-year-old College of Secondary Education (Collège d'enseignement secondaire), with nine teachers and 675 students.[2]

Mining

Say is the location of some potential iron ore mines with reserves of about 650MT.

Transport

An extension of the railway from Benin to Niamey is proposed which would serve the iron ore mines at Say.

Gallery

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  Woman from Say, 1898
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  People of Say, 1898
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  People of Say, 1898
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  Marabouts of Say, 1912

See also

• Iron ore in Africa

External links

• Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Say" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 24 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 276.