Maradi Airport — Maradi, Niger

Maradi Airport (MFQ) serves Maradi, Niger's second-largest city and a key commercial hub near the Nigerian border in the country's agricultural south. The airport handles limited scheduled domestic traffic along with humanitarian, government, and NGO flights, reflecting the region's importance as a center for groundnut and cotton trade as well as its vulnerability to food insecurity and periodic drought. Maradi's economy has long depended on cross-border commerce with Nigeria, and MFQ provides a faster alternative to the long overland routes connecting the city to Niamey. Infrastructure at the airport remains basic, consistent with many regional Nigerien airfields, but it plays an outsized role in emergency response logistics during crises affecting the surrounding Maradi Region.