[2] The township is subdivided into 188 villages grouped into 45 village tract and 1 town, the principal town of Kani, which contains 3 urban wards.

There are Pone Taung Hills in the west of the township.

[5] In December 2021, BBC News reported the Myanmar military carried out four mass killings in July 2021 following the country's February 2021 coup d'etat.

[6] The BBC's investigation, which characterized Kani Township as "an opposition stronghold", interviewed 11 alleged witnesses to the killings, and compared them to cellphone videos and photographs collected by Myanmar Witness, a UK-based NGO.

[6] The investigation concluded that over 40 people in Kani Township were killed by the military, including at least 14 in one incident in the village of Yin.