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A 75-year-old man has been arrested in Eastern Province for allegedly indecently abusing a 14-year-old girl. Tobias Banda allegedly grossly inserted his manhood into the young girls mouth, touched her breasts and private parts and went on to tattoo her buttocks with a razor blade as a way of administering traditional medicine. Police spokesperson Rae Hamoonga […]

Researchers at Oxford University’s Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences have developed a new tool to predict people’s risks of getting esophageal cancer in the next ten years.

You can already track your steps, your sleep—why not track your mood? Apple’s latest software updates for its iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch will now allow users to log and track their moods. They are far from the first tech company to offer this, but with the rising concerns over mental health across the nation it raises the question of whether mood-tracking apps are effective.

Classrooms using dual ventilation systems can cut harmful air pollution in half compared to those that use normal ventilation, according to findings by the University of Surrey’s Global Center for Clean Air Research (GCARE).

There is new evidence that bolsters a possible link between e-cigarette use and increased risk of stroke, according to researchers from the University of Colorado Boulder. Their study, conducted in humans, showed that circulating endothelial cell-derived microvesicles (tiny, bubble-like particles released into the bloodstream during inflammation) from e-cigarette users have adverse effects on key factors responsible for regulating brain blood flow. Changes in these factors contribute to the “promotion, development and progression” of ischemic stroke.

Protein from two ounce-equivalents (oz-eq) of animal-based protein foods provides greater essential amino acids (EAA) bioavailability than an equal two oz-eq of plant-based protein foods, according to scientists at Purdue University.

By ROGERS KALERO

THE United Party for National Development (UPND) has in the last two years of being in power brought misery on the faces of the majority Zambians as evidenced by the high cost of living, the Socialist Party has said.

Socialist Party Copperbelt provincial secretary, Brian Chirambo, who stated that President Hakainde Hichilema’ government had plunged Zambia into serious poverty and hunger, said the ruling party had failed to find solutions to the worsening situation.

He said in an interview that the UPND had failed to find solutions to the worsening poverty and hunger in communities as evidenced by the sky-rocketing prices of mealie meal and other essential commodities.

“There is absolutely nothing for Zambians to celebrate the two years of UPND in government, nothing. How do you celebrate the sky-rocketing prices of mealie meal and other essential commodities? UPND found mealie meal between K90 and K120 in PF, but now mealie meal is almost K300

“When you talk about the sky-rocketing prices of mealie meal and other essential commodities, the UPND leadership becomes arrogant and defensive. UPND has not only exhibited mediocrity in its two years in government, but has brought misery on the faces of the majority poverty-stricken Zambians,” Dr Chirambo said

He regretted that the UPND leadership from the top to the grass root had always been defensive and arrogant whenever reminded of its campaign promises and the people’s concerns of mealie meal prices

Dr Chirambo accused the UPND government of failing to provide leadership and make right decisions in mining, agriculture and other sectors, thereby worsening poverty and hunger in the Copperbelt.

He said instead of investing in agriculture and making right decisions in mining and other sectors, the UPND in its two years in government had concentrated on putting the personal and business interests of its business partners and its ‘slave masters’.

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Early improvements in cardiac and hematologic parameters may predict better survival outcomes for patients being treated for stage IIIb AL amyloidosis, a deadly disease with a median survival of four to six months caused by abnormal protein buildup, according to research published in Blood Advances.

By LUCY PHIRI

LUSAKA High court judge Lameck Mwale has set October 13, 2023 as judgement day in a matter former Roan Member of Parliament Chishimba Kambwili is charged with defamation of the President in relation to his “imbwa sha bantu yaleikala fye ku Chawama” remarks.

Mr. Mwale yesterday sat at the Lusaka Magistrate Court to preside over the case.

Kambwili is alleged to have between August 26 and 27, 2019 in Lusaka, with intent to bring the President’s name Mr. Edgar Lungu into hatred, ridicule or contempt, published an insulting matter by word of mouth.

Meanwhile, Chief MuMpolokoso’s advisor of Shamwamba village, also a bemba idiom interpreter has told the court that the words Kambwili uttered where not defamatory or insulting.

Mr. Jackson Bwalya, 54, who is also headman said “Ishi imbwa shabantu shaku chawama”(these dogs of Chawama) is not an insult but an idiotmin Bemba which means what someone is doing is inhumane.

Mr. Bwalya testified that as an interpreter of Bemba (tribe) the words Kambwili uttered does not mean an insult, it means one failed to do things they were supposed to do. 

“Some bemba terms especially idioms sounds as if you are insulting when you are not, what he said was not an insult but  an idiom, for example other words like abanakashi Mafi ya mpompo, which means the women are plenty, it’s not an insult. There was no disrespect in the statement, it’s just an idiom,” he said.

And Chief Mumpolokoso’s headman and secretary at council for chiefs at Nchenje royal establishment, Mr. Ben Kabamba, 51, also told the court that according to bemba interpretation, there was no insult or defamatory remarks against Kambwili.

“Noti ishi imbwa shabantu shaku chawama” it’s not an insult but it’s a resemblance, for example if there is a funeral and someone is playing loud music, we can say imbwa yamutu because what that person is doing is inhumane and not right at that particular time but that’s not an insult unless when he said weh bwawe, means an insult,” he said.

Early this year, the court found Kambwili with a case to answer and placed him on his defense to hear his side of story.

In his defense, he denied defaming Former President stating that what he said was not defamatory in nature.

Kambwili is alleged to have said, “Noti ishi imbwa shabantu yaleikala fye Ku Chawama elo yamona ste ati ntandale icalo, eko baita fye kuya. Kuti washo umutengo wabunga balelwa 150 Waya? Kumona fye abantu abika kuti wabula Kampyongo, ati Minister of Home Affairs? Kuti Chaba Chalo ? Ba Kaizer Zulu. Okay bane. (not these people who are like dogs who used to stay in Chawama when it saw ‘ste’ decides to move all over the world, whenever it is called, it goes. Can you leave the price of mealie meal they fight 150 you go. You can even see the people he appoints. How do you appoint Kampyongo as Minister of Home Affairs? Can it be a country? Ba Kaiser Zulu. Okay guys).”

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INJURED Copper Queens keeper Hazel Nali is tomorrow set to undergo a knee surgery in an operation that is expected to start her long walk to recovery. Nali, the undisputed Copper Queens number one had to endure the agony of watching Zambia from the stands after being ruled out of the World Cup due to […]