[1] It lies in the Sahel, the semi-arid, sparsely populated zone between the Sahara Desert to the north and the millet-growing savannah to the south.

Raising goats, camels, and cattle is the traditional livelihood for people in this region, which gets only a few weeks of rain per year.

This has forced many previously nomadic and semi-nomadic people to settle in and around Aderbissinat and other Sahelian towns.

The mayor of Aderbissinat is Mohamed Echika, who has supported the Niger Project SNHM into the investigations into a new sauropod dinosaur Spinophorosaurus nigerensis.

[2] Mr Echika has also been a guest of honour at the Tribunal de las Aguas in Valencia, Spain[3] in 2005, which has since become safeguarded by UNESCO.