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Djado is a ghost town located in the department of Bilma Department in Niger. The settlement lies on the Djado Plateau. The settlement likely was not called Djado during its existence. The site is quite remote. No excavation has been done, so the real name of the settlement is unknown.
There are three villages in the commune: Chirfa, Séguédine, and Yaba. In addition, there are the nomad camps of Djado and Tchounouk, as well as military camps. The main settlement is the village Chirfa.
The ruins of Djado are on top of rocky cliffs. At the bottom of these cliffs are subterranean , which also serve as an ideal breeding ground for mosquitoes. Depending on the season, some of these ponds almost dry up completely. From the cliffs, the Kaouar valley can be reached. There is a desert made of pebbles to the west. Beyond them lie the Aïr Mountains.
These two characteristics seem to point to a people that was sedentism, but the current population of the region is mostly .
Djado was part of the kingdom of Sayfema of Kanem-Bornu at least since the reign of Dunama Dibalemi (1203–1243). For part of the time, they were independent, but they re-joined the empire of Idris Alauma (1564–1596). Idris Alauma moved through the desert, from Fachi to Bilma, south of Djado.
As the power of the Bomu empire decreased, the people of the oasis were exposed to several raids of the Touareg, in the 18th and 19th century. They started to leave the place, and settled in Kaouar. Another reason might be that cattle herding in the region also introduced mosquitoes that spread malaria. In 1860, about 1000 Kanuri are said to have been left. In the middle of the 20th century, only a few Kanuri and Toubou people were left. They mostly lived from growing Date palm, and harvesting salt.
The military outpost Madama was created in 1930, when Niger was a French colony. In 1988. Rallye Dakar passed through Djado.
In 2014, gold was discovered, which attracted up to 20,000 people from Niger, Chad, Libya and Sudan. Because there were many heavily-armed foreigners, and working conditions were very bad, Moussa Hassane Barazé, the responsible minister for mining operations, ordered the mines to be closed in 2017.
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When it comes to harvesting, there are Tubu the area near the ghost town. In the eastern part of the commune, Teda language and Libyan Arabic are spoken. On the Algerian border, Tahaggart, a Tuareg languages, is common.
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