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This paper describes how the prevention of nuclear proliferation, with a special emphasis on Africa, has become a high priority for the international community. The authors analyze the rationale for and against the high priority status of nuclear non-proliferation, and see it as a means to the end of preventing nuclear war, rather than as an end in itself. The paper examines the nuclear proliferation risks in Africa and finds them to be quite insignificant, as both South Africa and Libya have abandoned their previous nuclear programs and Egypt never seriously pursued the development of nuclear weapons. The authors explain that therefore the African continent is only interesting from a non-proliferation perspective, in terms of its uranium deposits.