Zinder

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Zinder

 

a city in southern Niger. Population, 38,000 (1969). Zinder is a highway junction and the terminal point of the trans-Saharan Laghouat-In Salah-Zinder road. It is the trading center of an agricultural region (cereals, peanuts, leather, hides, and livestock). Zinder has a vegetable-oil extraction plant. Among the principal trades are the dressing of skins and basket-weaving. A steam power plant is located here.

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Present at the ceremony were the representatives of the Taraba State Governor, Darius Ishaku, representative of former Defence Minister, Theophilus Danjuma, the Sultan of Damagaram in Niger Republic and a host of other Emirs and Chiefs from Bauchi, Plateau, Borno, Taraba and Yobe States.
As for Muniyo, Damagaram and Daura, they will continue to be vassals of the Sultan of Bornu, who in return will surrender to you all his claims to Gobir and Katsina" (Palmer, 1936, p.269)
In addition to the pockets of resistance discussed above, there were numerous other sources of opposition beyond the borders of the Caliphate: to the west Borgu, Gurma, Dendi, Zaberma, Arewa and the remnants of Kebbi and Gobir persistently attacked the Caliphate; to the north the states of Tessawa and Maradi, founded by the fugitive pre-jihad rulers of Katsina, allied with Damagaram, with its capital at Zinder, to harry the Caliphate; Bornu remained a formidable enemy to the east; while non-Muslim Junkun and Tiv constituted opposition on the southern frontiers (Adeleye 1971).