Niamey's first entry in the atlas is its stretch of the AfDB-financed Trans-Saharan fibre backbone: an 88km urban local loop linking the city's administrative sites toward Niger's planned national data centre. The wider 1,031km network reaches toward Algeria, Chad, Nigeria and Benin and was 97% complete by November 2025 — though the data centre it is meant to feed is still being finished.

The atlas documents 2 projects in Niamey: 1 documented failure, 1 still running without a verdict. Every entry carries an evidence grade — the strongest here is peer-reviewed (1 entry) — and links its sources.

All 2 projects in Niamey

✔ Every published entry is checked against the public sources it cites before publication.

Outcome: 1 ongoing · 1 failed — Evidence: 1 peer-reviewed · 1 official

Deeper reads

Where Niamey appears in the atlas's own analysis.

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• 🇺🇸 Chattanooga: EPB Gig City — Fiber-Optic Smart Grid & Community Broadband Different endgame for public fibre: Niamey's backbone links government sites, Chattanooga's utility fibre became a citywide gigabit ISP.
• 🇨🇫 Bangui: Sub-Riverine Fiber Connection Ring Both are AfDB/EU-financed fibre backbones from the same period — Niamey's loop feeds a planned data centre, Bangui's crosses two borders.

Official strategy and sources

📎 Cite this city

1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Smart-city projects in Niamey, Niger.” The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/cities/niamey/ (last verified 2026-08-28). Data: CC BY 4.0.

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