Four African Nations Agree to Water Management Programme
Seeking to improve their management of water resources, four northeast African nations today agreed at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to establish a long-term framework for utlizing a k...
Myanmar Signed Additional Protocol with IAEA
On 17 September 2013, the Union Minister for Foreign Affairs of Myanmar, H.E. U Wunna Maung Lwin, and IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano signed an Additional Protocol to Myanmar's safeguards agreement at the IAEA Headquarters in Vienna, Austria.
Marine Environments Under Growing Pressure
Experts from around the world gathered for the first day of the two-day Scientific Forum of the IAEA's 57th General Conference in Vienna, Austria, to discuss the pressing issue of ocean acidification, and nuclear applications for a sustainable marine environment.
Women's Role in Field of Nuclear Science
Early on the second morning of the 57th IAEA General Conference, Janice Dunn Lee, IAEA Deputy Director General, and Head of the Department of Management, together with the Vienna Center for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation (VCDNP), Women in Nuclear (WIN) and the International Network for Emerging Nuclear Specialists (INENS), organized a round table discussion on Women in All Things Nuclear.
Progress in Battling Tsetse Flies in Ethiopia
It's been 16 years of hard, sometimes discouraging work to reduce the population of tsetse flies in Ethiopia's Southern Rift Valley. But now the investment of time and resources has begun to benefit the rural communities affected by the diseases this insect pest transmits.
The IAEA and the Ethiopian Government have been working in tandem to suppress the insect. The suppression program has significantly reduced the incidence of the tsetse-transmitted animal disease trypanosomosis in the 25?000?km2 project area in the Southern Rift Valley.