Caballo Island Caballo Island Caballo Island (which means "Horse Island" in Spanish) is a bluff, rocky island located at the entrance to Manila Bay in the Philippines. It is about long with the highest elevation at 381 feet high. Caballo, along with the larger Corregidor (2 km to the north), divides the entrance to the bay into two broad and deep channels, known as the North and South Channel. The whole island was formerly occupied by Fort Hughes, a U.S. defense fortification before World War II. It was heavily bombed during the war. Caballo and Corregidor Islands are believed to be the
Regional Animal Health Center for North Africa (REMESA) initiative. Located in Tunis, Tunisia, at the headquarters of FAO sub-regional office, the RAHC-NA was created within the context of the Global Framework for the Progressive Control of Transboundary Animal Diseases (GF-TADS), signed on May 2004 between FAO and OIE. GF-TADS is an initiative to combine the experience and expertise of both organizations in the fight against Transboundary Animal Diseases in order to strengthen capacities of developing countries and assist them in setting specific control programs of certain Transboundary Animal Diseases according to priority areas. RAHC-NA is supported mainly by the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation for Development (AECID),