Assamakka is connected to the town of Arlit, 200 km to the south by a road which remains in largely a sand "Piste".

From Arlit, the "Uranium Highway", a tarred road built in the 1970s for mining trucks, travels south to Agadez and Niamey.

[4][5][6][7] The area around Assamakka is flat and absolutely desert: the rocky plains of the Toussasset region begin just to the east, and are punctuated by Ergs, or "dune seas".

The cloud cover and precipitation are absent except during the short irregular "rainy" season in July and August, then the weather clears up again.

[9] Several disputed killings of rebels and civilians are alleged to have taken place in the Assamakka area during the 2007 Tuareg Insurgency against the Nigerien government.