Addis Ababa, — Participants of African delegates at the Nuclear Energy Innovation Summit for Africa (NEISA 2025) underway in the Rwandan capital of Kigali called for the accelerated adoption of nuclear energy to meet the continent’s rising energy demand, support industrialization, and drive sustainable development. As the continent’s population is expected to exceed 3 billion…
Prime Minister Edouard Ngirente has issued a rallying call for a continental shift toward nuclear energy, urging African nations to act collectively and decisively in a bid to close the continent’s energy gap as demand surges with population growth. ALSO READ: Small modular reactors key to Rwanda’s energy sovereignty Ngirente was speaking at the opening…
United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), has called on African countries to embrace nuclear energy as a strategic solution to the continent’s deepening energy crisis. In a statement on Saturday, Executive Secretary of ECA, Claver Gatete, said that it was unacceptable that over 600 million Africans still lacked access to electricity. Gatete described the…
Iran expert Trita Parsi on the fallout of Israel’s unprovoked 12-day war against Iran and implications for Gaza. United States President Donald Trump can force Israel to end the war on Gaza if he shows the same gumption as he did with Iran, argues Trita Parsi, executive vice president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible…
Iran has the capacity to start enriching uranium again – for a possible bomb – in “a matter of months”, the head of the UN’s nuclear watchdog has said. Rafael Grossi, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), said the US strikes on three Iranian sites last weekend had caused severe but “not total”…
Hundreds of thousands of mourners lined the streets of downtown Tehran on Saturday for the funeral of the head of the Revolutionary Guard and other top commanders and nuclear scientists killed during a 12-day war with Israel. The caskets of Guard’s chief Gen. Hossein Salami, the head of the Guard’s ballistic missile program, Gen. Amir…
An initial classified assessment found the U.S. strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities set back Tehran’s nuclear program by a matter of months, according to three sources familiar with its contents. The assessment, produced by the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Pentagon’s military intelligence wing, said the strikes caused the entrances to two nuclear enrichment facilities, including…
Washington — The United States launched strikes on three Iranian nuclear facilities, President Trump announced Saturday evening, calling them a “spectacular military success.” “The U.S. military carried out massive precision strikes on the three key nuclear assemblies in the Iranian regime: Fordo, Natanz and Isfahan,” President Trump said in a national address from the White House…
CBS News Live CBS News 24/7 Live Washington — Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Joint Chiefs Chairman Dan Caine are holding a news conference Sunday morning to give updates on President Trump’s decision to strike a trio of Iranian nuclear sites. Mr. Trump announced Saturday evening that the U.S. had launched strikes against Iranian…
Iran and Israel have exchanged a barrage of missiles after the United States bombed key Iranian nuclear sites, dramatically escalating tensions in the Middle East. Iran on Sunday launched two volleys of 27 missiles, targeting Israel’s main Ben Gurion airport near Tel Aviv, research facilities, and command centres, an Iranian state news agency reported. Air…
