Members of the United Nations (UN) Security Council, meeting in an emergency session on Monday, expressed alarm over North Korea’s nuclear bomb test at the weekend. The security council members, including representatives of Egypt, Senegal and Ethiopia, condemned the test and explored options for dealing with Pyongyang that include new…
Ghana has now converted the fuel at its only nuclear research reactor in Accra, successfully completing an international project meant to replace the use of high enriched uranium (HEU) to low enriched uranium (LEU) fuel. The three-year effort completed last week makes Ghana the first of five countries outside of…
It’s hard to imagine why anyone would intentionally produce 300,000 tsetse flies per week, but that’s exactly what they’re doing at a new facility in Burkina Faso. The country has inaugurated the breeding facility at Bobo-Dioulasso, where radiation is used to make the male flies sterile. They then are released…