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This paper discusses the state of biological and chemical weapons control in Africa. It argues that international chemical and biological weapons control mechanisms fail to prioritize the specific concerns of African states, such as the need to put in place measures that could prevent the deliberate or accidental outbreak of disease. The author argues, moreover, that such measures are not adequately geared toward increasing awareness among the African scientific and industrial communities of the implications of the 1972 Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on their Destruction (BTWC) or the 1993 Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction (CWC).