West and Central Africa urge urgent action as nuclear threat escalates

West and Central Africa urge urgent action as nuclear threat escalates

African states have cautioned that escalating tensions among nuclear-armed powers pose severe humanitarian, environmental and security threats, renewing calls for urgent global action to eliminate nuclear weapons. This came to light at the close of the West and Central African Regional Conference on the Universalisation and Implementation of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) in Accra, where participants examined the risks a…