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An off-duty Alaska Airlines pilot’s alleged midair sabotage attempt of a Horizon Air flight from Seattle to San Francisco on Sunday—and the pilot’s later admission that he had been depressed—highlights the major concerns that pilot mental health poses to the airline industry.

A publication in Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology led by researchers from King’s College London has, for the first time, revealed important information on the role of mRNA regulating proteins in asthma.

A variety of risks can make it more likely that someone develops Alzheimer’s disease or other dementias.

Nearly two-thirds of those with hepatitis A virus (HAV)-related deaths have at least one documented indication for HAV vaccine, and only 4% have evidence of vaccination, according to research published in the Oct. 20 issue of Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

Researchers from Karolinska Institutet, among others, have developed a prognostic model that identifies the children most at risk of severe RSV infection. The study, published in The Lancet Digital Health, can show which children will benefit most from new methods to prevent a serious infection.

By LUCY PHIRI

THE Patriotic Front (PF) has threatened that it shall have no option but to conduct citizen’s arrest against Miles Sampa if the Zambia Police will not move to apprehend the embattled former Matero Member of Parliament for breaking the laws with impunity.

NAIROBI – According to the most recent statistics, the cost of running the national government in Kenya declined slightly in the first quarter of the current fiscal year.

…as three Super League clubs seek his services 

By MICHAEL MIYOBA

FORMER Nkana FC coach Beston Chambeshi has advised the club to work hard and find a winning formula after going eight games without a win.

Nkana are bottom on the Super League table with three points collected from three draws and five losses.

Chambeshi was hesitant to comment on issues involving Nkana after he was placed on administration leave in August, two weeks after the new football season was launched.

However, the gaffer who led Kalampa to two consecutive defeats to Red Arrows and Mutondo Stars, which triggered his exit said the Kitwe giants have individuals who can help the team now led by Ian Bakala to resolve the challenges the club may be facing now.

“I can’t comment anything about Nkana because I’m out of the system now. There are people inside the system who are supposed to sort-out the problems there. All they need is to work hard and find a winning formula otherwise I can’t comment much on Nkana issues,” Chambeshi said.

Meanwhile, Chambeshi said he is free to join a team of his choice after his contract with Nkana FC came to an end on October 21.

Chambeshi, nicknamed Quick Silver during his playing days at Nkana, said he was ready for a new challenge after reflecting during the close to two months he has been absent from the game.

“My contract had finished so there is no one who can say that I breached the contract for Nkana because if I had joined a team they would have said that I breached a contract but now I’m free,” Chambeshi said. 

Asked if he had received any offers, the experienced gaffer who helped Nkana to avoid relegation on three occasions said; “I have received offers. About three teams have approached me but because of my administrative leave, I didn’t want to breach the contract with Nkana. So now I’m free and within three weeks you will hear something.”  

As one of the most experienced coaches in the country, Chambeshi previously tutored Power Dynamos, Chambishi, Lumwana Radiants, and Kansanshi Dynamos and both the senior men’s national team and the Under-20 which he led to winning the AFCON title on home soil in 2017.

By Darlington Chiluba

ONE of the greatest manipulations of man is to re-create consensus on what is right or wrong, what is worthy of justice and what isn’t. In this manipulation, neither religion nor history is safe from misrepresentation. 

For instance, colonialism will never be a colossal crime of humanity against entire continents because history imposes a narrative that expunges guilt and creates a pompous pitying of the offended. 

In other words, history posits colonialism as being almost synonymous with economic benefit and enlightenment of those lesser people while carefully disguising the enduring commercial benefit gained by the colonisers for generations. 

Furthermore, despite the over-glorification of African slavery, no reparations will be paid because that slavery is portrayed as a superiority of one race over another, than a genocidal crime. 

Because the honest detail of history was never written by (the children of) those enslaved and massacred, it can be changed at any point to achieve an intended narrative which most certainly absorbs the perpetrators of any offense. 

In recent memory, the undertone that slavery happened because Africans sold each other for beads and gunpowder has become louder, and not by accident. This is the trouble with a history written for you – it is malleable. 

As such, if the most ancient or earliest association of Africans is slavery, so that anything before that is wiped out of memory, then the historians have done their job well for generations to come.

 It means that the identity of an entire people has been manufactured for them to an extent that no God, Spirit, or deity can be African. The reason God should not be African is not written by God but suggested and imposed in both subtle and covert ways by historians who co-opt faith into religions manufactured to suit racial and racist hierarchies. 

Christianity, as a prime example, is presented as foreign to Africa even though its earliest text mentions Egypt, Libya and Ethiopia before it does other continents.

So, what becomes of a people who are defined by their captors and tormentors, given a carefully re-defined god who thrives on racial hierarchy? 

What happens to a people whose land is dispossessed illegally (pre-and post-colonialism) and then returned under newly defined borders as countries? 

What happens to a people who are told that their ancestors did not have skill to write their own history except in primitive cave drawings and songs? 

There is no simple answer to these questions. The single most logical thread and possible answer is identity. Each country has its own identity which typically shows in its collective character and laws.

Therefore, those people and nations who identify with God genuinely do so from a point of spiritual identity than physical or political identity. 

Politics is transient, its positions not permanent and most of all, genuine integrity is rare. Politics cannot be an identity because it is a resultant action or force: a means to channel purpose for a benefit to one or many. 

Identity must be associated to something greater than politics. In Christianity, for instance, the book of John 4:24 calls on believers to identify with God from a spiritual standpoint. 

The translation here is to anchor people or nations to an identity that supersedes other competing standards that change based on situation or circumstance.

A people that can identify with God from a point of character, of purpose and honesty will create a nation above others and hold their collective national interest as sacred. The Zambian constitution resolved this puzzle through the declaration of the country as a Christian nation. 

This covenant calls the nation, government and the executive to identify with the character of God and do best to distance from human frailty in the business of governing a nation. 

It is a covenant grounded in reflecting the identity of a perfect deity in the conscious of the nation and its people. Obedience to this covenant is another matter.

Saudi Arabia goes further than most countries because it grasps the balance of cultural, historical and religious identity to the extent that their god (Allah) is their own. 

Allah is neither a colonial or economic creation, the people of that country – indeed most of the middle east, own their God. The constitution of Saudi Arabia, for instance, is the Quran itself. 

It is such self-identity and awareness that makes countries like Afghanistan difficult to occupy and rebrand because the domestic heritage is owned by its people. 

It is such awareness of identity that separates nations like Ethiopia from most because, again, the record of their history is written by their own hands.

It almost becomes tempting to suppose that Libya was torn apart because its collective identity was falsely recast to a single individual who was demonised and slaughtered. 

The foreign re-imagination of that country is the foundation of the current chaos which has disunited a once single nation into a failed state. The worst crime here will happen if Libya does not take responsibility to write its history accurately in the aftermath. 

It is even worse for nations that thrive on building monuments and statues that honor men, and spend time fighting.

In every religion, God (or gods) rank people as their foremost tools to use to achieve their grand intentions. Subsequent to this, we will hold sacred the agreement we have with that God as enshrined in the constitution. 

A collective understanding of that covenant will restore the integrity of power to the people. Leaders who please God will please the people because they will be in one accord and most certainly their submission to God will dissuade them from navigating through the path of falsehoods that more frequently cause most leaders to lose the favour of the electorate.

By NATION REPORTER

MINISTER of Defence Ambrose Lufuma has expressed ignorance on the planned construction of the smelter plant by the Zambia National Service (ZNS) in North western Province.