U.S. President Donald Trump’s “war on terror” – much like his predecessor’s – uses partners’ capabilities against terrorists in an effort to protect the country from potential attacks, while minimizing U.S casualties. In Africa, Trump’s continuation of this strategy has resulted in increased reliance on U.S. special operations forces. The U.S. Special Operations Command Africa […]

The Korle Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra, Ghana—the third largest hospital in Africa—houses two radiation machines for treating cancer patients. Both are relatively new, purchased by Ghana’s Ministry of Health in the last few years.

As China’s economic interests in Africa have expanded, its security interests have kept pace, to protect Chinese nationals and assets across the continent.  To that end, China has invested heavily in multinational organizations such as the African Union and the United Nations and has shown commitment to regional stability. The Cipher Brief spoke with David […]

NSSPI Interim Director Dr. Sunil Chirayath participated in the second part of a joint professional development course with the National Nuclear Security Administration’s International Nuclear Safeguards Engagement Program (INSEP), the US Department of State’s Partnership for Nuclear Security (PNS), and the African Center for Science and International Security (AFRICSIS).  The objectives of this course were […]

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.  […]

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 […]

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 […]

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.

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 […]