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European Union to Fund Global Efforts Against WMD Materials Trafficking

(Global Security Newswire) The European Union in coming years will provide $387 million for international efforts to prevent the smuggling of WMD materials, the Xinhua News Agency reported on Friday. Bruno Dupre of the EU European External Action Service noted the financial support during a conference in Nairobi, Kenya, on highlighting the threat posed by Read More »

January 23, 2012
| Filed under Africa, Asia/Pacific, Europe, Middle East, Biological Weapons, Bioterrorism, International, and Policy & Initiatives
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After FMD, swine flu hits SA province

(Mmegi Online) This is a double blow from South Africa after the recent outbreak of Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) in the same province following which DVS similarly banned importation of cloven-hoofed animal products and their feed from South Africa. …

January 19, 2012
| Filed under Africa, Agriculture, and Public Health
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Limited Progress Seen at Biological Weapons Convention Review Meeting

(Global Security Newswire) Delegates to last month’s Biological Weapons Convention review conference achieved consensus on a number of updates to decision-making and trust-building mechanisms for the pact, but agreement was limited in those areas and fully lacking on other matters, official participants and independent experts said. Nations represented at the meeting approved certain reforms to Read More »

January 19, 2012
| Filed under Africa, Asia/Pacific, Europe, Middle East, North America, South America, South Asia, Biological Weapons, International, and Policy & Initiatives
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BWC Meeting Makes Incremental Changes

(Arms Control Today) As most observers expected, the states-parties did not narrow their differences on contentious issues relating to treaty compliance and verification at the three-week conference in Geneva. Other areas had been seen as more likely to produce agreement. For example, some key states had pushed for a strengthened “intersessional process,” the annual meetings Read More »

January 13, 2012
| Filed under Africa, Asia/Pacific, Europe, Middle East, North America, South America, South Asia, Countermeasures, International, and Policy & Initiatives
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Zimbabwe: Anthrax Outbreak Hits Mana Pools

(AllAfrica.com) MORE than 165 animals in Mana Pools National Park in the lower Zambezi Valley have died due to an anthrax outbreak over the past few weeks. Parks and Wildlife Management Authority public relations manager Ms Caroline Washaya-Moyo …