Niena
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Niena is a village and rural commune of Mali, in the Cercle and region of Sikasso. Niena is located 133 km from Bougouni and 78 km from Sikasso, on the highway that links Bamako to Sikasso and Côte d’Ivoire.
The village of Niena was founded in the sixteenth century by Fulas in a region otherwise dominated by Bambaras. The commune of Niena, created in 1998, encompasses 44 villages with 29,788 inhabitants.