Four prominent U.S. and Australia-based climate and Earth-system scientists released an open letter early November calling on world leaders and environmentalists to support the development and deployment of safer…
The Ghana-based African Center for Science and International Security (AFRICSIS) recently held a two-day event on 4 and 7 October 2013 in the nation’s capital city Accra to commemorate the…
In January 2016, Ghana will become the 6th African country to have a national space agency when the Ghana Space Science and Technology Institute becomes the Ghana Space Agency (GhSA).…
In 2009, Ghana’s Minister of Environment, Science, and Technology (MEST), the Hon. Ms. Sherry Ayittey, released an initial three-phase development plan for 2011-2015, establishing a Ghana Space Agency that will…
As of 1 July 2009, the African Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone Treaty (Pelindaba Treaty) is one ratification away from entering into force. The Treaty will enter into force on the date of…
Syria's regime says it will need at least a year to dismantle its chemical weapons arsenal, but if Libya's experience is anything to go by, this is a hopelessly optimistic…
On 12 August 1883 at 8:00 a.m., Mexico’s Zacatecas Observatory's boss Jose A. Bonilla was preparing to study the Sun’s corona when he observed an amazing phenomenon. He saw several…
On February 15 at 3:20:26 UTC, a supersonic flying space rock, roughly the size of a van or a small truck, entered Earth’s atmosphere, exploded at 24,140 meters over Russia’s…
The OPCW organised a special 2-day induction programme on 12 and 13 September 2013 for a group of senior government representatives from the Federal Republic of Somalia to assist country’s…
On 28 June 2013 the Chemical Weapons Convention entered into force for Somalia, making it the 189th State Party to the treaty. Somalia had earlier deposited its instrument of ratification…