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FINANCE and National Planning Minister Situmbeko Musokotwane says it has been tough dealing with the abruptness of the cut in the United States’ funding to the health sector.Dr Musokotwane, who was speaking in Livingstone at the Bloomberg-organised Africa Business Media Innovators 2025, says it would been better to be told two years earlier.

Addressing questions during the conference, Dr Musokotwane admitted that donor aid cannot last forever but criticised the manner of the withdrawal.

“It’s been tough dealing with the abruptness of the cut. Of course, everyone knows that aid is not meant to last forever, and at some point we have to become less aid-dependent. But what’s been difficult is how suddenly it’s being implemented. It would have been better to be told two, three, or even four years ahead – but that didn’t happen,” Dr Musokotwane said.

He also noted that the tough US tariffs would hurt Zambia as an exporter of copper.

He ruled out cutting ties with US, insisting that “we will not disengage from US because of this. There are problems but we are hopeful this can be resolved.”

Meanwhile, Dr. Musokotwane has called for a fundamental shift in how the country approaches its mining sector, stressing the urgent need to increase mineral production.Dr. Musokotwane reminded delegates that national prosperity hinges on growth in output – not the preservation of outdated systems. “If we are going to create environments that benefit many people, that only happens when we produce more and more,” he said.

He emphasised that Zambia must move beyond the mindset that simply having copper is enough. “This country will not become wealthy if we keep producing copper in the same quantity as we did in 1964,” he warned.

BARNABAS ZULU GOVERNMENT has sternly warned members of the public against issuing inflammatory or hate-filled statements concerning the death and funeral of Zambia’s sixth Republican President, Edgar Chagwa Lungu. Meanwhile, the Zambian government has been accused of attempting to forcibly seize the body of former President Edgar Chagwa Lungu from a hospital morgue in South […]

BARNABAS ZULU FORMER Foreign Affairs Minister Joseph Malanji says the country has lost a great leader in Dr. Edgar Chagwa Lungu, who passed away last week in South Africa. In an interview yesterday, Mr Malanji recalled that economic diplomacy was the hallmark in President Lungu’s implementation of foreign policy. “This death has come so early […]

Patients with womb cancer are not being tested for a genetic condition that increases their chance of developing further cancers, a study has found. The work is published in the journal BMJ Oncology.

A series of digital tests carried out via a smartphone app could enhance the detection of disease progression in Huntington’s disease and improve the efficiency of clinical trials, finds research led by scientists at University College London (UCL) and Roche.

Cocaine, a drug of abuse, activates just a portion—10% to 20%—of the neurons in the brain’s nucleus accumbens, a critical region linked to motivation and addiction. Though small in numbers, this activated neuronal population strongly controls drug-related behavior through downstream changes in gene expression, nerve synapses, neural circuitry and neural function that lead to behavioral change, including addiction.

Approximately 10% of the human population is left-handed. Among them, one in five exhibits a peculiar brain phenomenon known as atypical language lateralization. While most people attribute their language capability to their left hemisphere, this atypical group of left-handers utilizes their right hemisphere to speak. One of the oldest questions in neuroscience is how this phenomenon impacts brain organization and human behavior.

In Brazil, there is still no advanced therapy product for the treatment of chronic wounds and burns that has been registered with health regulatory bodies. A startup based at the Supera Innovation and Technology Park in Ribeirão Preto, in the interior of the state of São Paulo, intends to break down this barrier and become a pioneer in this segment.

In a study estimating the incidence rates of appendiceal adenocarcinoma (AA), or appendix cancer, across birth cohorts in the United States, researchers observed a sharp increase in AA incidence rates for those born after 1945, particularly for Generation X and Millennials. These patterns suggest a timely need for etiologic research and increased AA awareness among physicians and the public.

A new study explains the genetic underpinnings of a rare and aggressive form of ovarian cancer—and offers a potential pathway for new treatments.