Over the next two weeks, Member States of Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) will convene in The Hague for the Twenty-Third Session of the Conference of the States Parties (CSP-23), which opened today, followed by the Fourth Review Conference (RC-4), which begins on Wednesday, 21 November. The aim of these sessions is […]

Production can resume at NTP Radioisotopes’ Pelindaba facilities after receiving the go-ahead from South Africa’s National Nuclear Regulator (NNR). Preliminary production runs at the NTP processing plant, which the company said had been “effectively” shut down since November 2017 following a series of “safety-related issues”, will be followed by full production. The shutdown was ordered […]

ANNOUNCEMENT The African Centre for Science and International Security (AFRICSIS) and the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS), Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey (MIIS), will offer an intensive course on “Nuclear Nonproliferation and Security for Women in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics)” for researchers, practitioners, and other specialists from the African […]

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — 29 October 2018 — National Authority representatives along with security and legal experts from the Sahel and West Africa identified possible ways of strengthening their capacities for addressing chemical terrorism during the workshop on the role of implementing legislation of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) in addressing threats posed by non-State […]