From July 18-22, NSSPI Director Dr. Sunil Chirayath traveled to Knoxville, Tennessee to take part in a nuclear safeguards curriculum development workshop for university professors from Nigeria and Ghana at the University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The workshop was sponsored by the U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration’s International Nuclear Safeguards Engagement Program.  […]

Chirayath Contributes to Safeguards Curriculum Development Workshop for Sub-Saharan Africa

The IAEA will continue to support Nigeria in the introduction of nuclear power, Director General Yukiya Amano told Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari this week. The country plans to have its first nuclear power plant with four 1200 MWe reactors ready by 2035. Mr Amano encouraged the Nigerian authorities to continue the preparation of a comprehensive […]

Nigeria to Prepare for Nuclear Power Programme: IAEA Director General Visits Abuja

On 15 July 2009, the Treaty of Pelindaba on the African Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone entered into force for 28 of the 53 African Union Member States and three of the five Nuclear Weapon States under the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. Five years later, a look back at actions and effort of stakeholders in […]

Full Report – Five Years after Entry-Into-Force of the Treaty of Pelindaba on the African Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone

28 Apr 2015 – Academic symposium in the margins of the 2015 Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference: nuclear disarmament, non-proliferation and energy: Fresh ideas for the future. The symposium was been hosted by the Permanent Mission of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the UN – together with UNODA, Harvard and CNS.

Summary on Five Years after Entry-Into-Force of the Treaty of Pelindaba on the African Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone: Progress, Challenges, and Next Steps

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 forecast. Damascus has provided the Hague-based Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) with a full inventory of its chemical arsenal, in order to […]

9 years on, Libya still not free of chemical weapons

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 implementation of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC). The delegation was headed by H.E. Ambassador Yusuf Mohamed Ismail Bari-Bari, Permanent Representative of Somalia to the United […]

OPCW Provides Somalia Assistance to Begin CWC Implementation

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 with the Secretary-General of the United Nations, on 29 May, and 30 days later the Convention entered into force for the country. This has reduced […]

Somalia Becomes 189th State Party To The Chemical Weapons Convention