Aguie

Aguie (var. Aguié, Agyé) is a town and capital of the Aguie Department in southern Niger, 43 mi 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 2012 population of Aguié Commune was 152,788. 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.

Transport
Aguié lies on the main east-west highway between Maradi and Zinder. It is also 30 mi north of the city of Katsina, Nigeria, in an area of much cross-border trade and population movement.

2005–06 Niger food crisis
Aguié Department was particularly hard hit in the 2005-06 Niger food crisis, and the town became a centre for aid efforts. International rural health and development projects have continued to be based there. Barely Open, Already Full: Feeding Centers in Niger, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). 27 July 2005. Projects Funded, Virginia Gildersleeve International Fund, (nd). Niger: Therapeutic milk is saving children’s lives, UNICEF, Kent Page, AGUIE, Niger, 10 August 2005. Assisted regeneration programme helps trees grow in Niger, IFAD/United Nations, November 2007. Projet de promotion de l’initiative locale pour le développement à Aguié (PPILDA), IFAD/United Nations Project I-597-NE. 2007. Projet de développement rural de la région d’Aguié (PDRAA), IFAD/United Nations Project I-292-NE. 1991. 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.