Niodior

Niodior (or Niodor ) is an island of the Senegal located in the Sine-Saloum, vis-a-vis the Pointe of Sangomar.

Administration

Niodior, the village, is a chief town of district of the Département of Foundiougne in the area of Fatick.

Geography

The geographical coordinates of the island are 13° 52 ' 0 NR by 16° 43 ' 60 O.

The closest localities are Djifer, Dinouar, Diogane Sosse, Foura, Ghana Town, Kololi, Kotu, Bakote, Fajara and Betanti.

The vegetation includes/understands in particular Mangrove S, Palmier S and Baobab S.

Population

The island counts approximately 8.000 inhabitants. They are often Niominka, a sub-group of the Sérères.

Economic activities

The inhabitants of this village devote themselves to fishing, the harvest and the drying of the hull S and the Huître S savages, resold with Dakar, in Gambia or Casamance by intermediaries.

Insofar as there hardly exists of employee jobs on the island, the women and the young men leave the village for seasonal employment.

The medical infrastructures are limited.

Displacements are done using Pirog S with engine. Niodior was little known until the publication by Fatou Diome, born in the island in 1968, of its book the Belly of the Atlantic .

With the international success of this work, many tourists wish from now on to discover the landscapes in the medium of which the novelist passed her childhood.

The island was also the witness of several significant demonstrations, such those related to the environmental problems of the coastal areas and the small islands in 1997 or with the female genital mutilations in 2000, which brings together the representatives of 26 islands of Saloum.

See too

Geography of Senegal
List of the islands of Senegal