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A welfare-to-work reform has increased employment rates for lone mothers but at a cost to her and her children’s mental health, new research shows.

By NATION REPORTER

SPEAKER of the National Assembly Nelly Mutti has been dragged to court by her relatives to have her administratorship of her late father’s estate revoked.

According to a writ of summons gotten by one of her relatives Kashumba Kashumba, Ms Mutti is expected to appear in court on March 27.

The summons contended that Ms Mutti was not doing her work properly as an administrator hence the move to have her removed.

“P1 alleges that you are not doing your work as an administrator,” the summons says.

The family sued Ms Mutti in the Mongu Local Court seeking her revocation as administrator of her late father’s estate.

In 2021, Ms Mutti’s father, Mr Gorebrown Kashumba, a prominent Mongu businessman died and as first-born child, the family appointed Ms Mutti as Administrator of her father’s Estate.

Geneticists have written new chapters in the reconstruction of pre-colonial Americas history after using DNA from the indigenous Ashaninka people from Amazonian Peru. They have discovered previously unexpected levels of genetic variation in this group and uncovered a strong hint that these people were involved in a South-to-North migration that led to the transition from an archaic to ceramic culture in the Caribbean islands.

Researchers at the University of Tübingen have developed a new method to better study atherosclerosis in mice. The non-invasive imaging method helps to better understand and treat narrowing of blood vessels, a cause of heart attacks and strokes. The new approach may also significantly reduce the number of animals used in experiments compared to previous methods. The results were published in the journal Circulation Research.

The benefits of meditation have long been touted: relief from stress and anxiety, and an increased ability to focus.

Preterm infants do not get used to repeated pain in the way that full-term infants, children and adults do habituate to pain, finds a study led by UCL (University College London) researchers.

A new method to cure HIV—by transplanting HIV-resistant stem cells from umbilical cord blood—has yielded long-term successful results, say scientists. The approach was successfully used to treat the “New York patient,” a middle-aged woman with leukemia and HIV who self-identifies as mixed race, who has been without HIV since 2017. Using stem cells from cord blood rather than from compatible adult donors, as has been done previously, increases the potential to cure HIV via stem cell transplantation in people of all racial backgrounds.

Cancer patients said the COVID-19 pandemic heightened infection concerns, increased feelings of fear, and disrupted their care, according to a research questionnaire.

By OLIVER SAMBOKO

HE tendency by the new dawn administration to always blame the PF whenever something goes wrong will not help resolve the many challenges facing the country, says Shiwang’andu Member of Parliament, Stephen Kampyongo.

He said the new dawn administration should stop blame games whenever there were incidents of violence in the country like what happened in Kitwe.

Mr Kampyongo said the government should take responsibility for the violence that occurred in some parts of the country during the Youth day commemoration on Sunday.

This followed a point of urgent matter of public importance raised by Kamfinsa MP Christopher Kang’ombe on the violence that occurred in Kitwe, where members of the PF were attacked by the ruling party members as they were taking part in the Youth Day commemoration.

Mr Kamyongo said there is a growing tendency by those in the current administration to accuse the former ruling party for their failure to run the affairs of the country.

He said the UPND should realise that they were now in the driving seat and no longer in the opposition therefore the citizens were looking up to them to find solutions to the country’s problems. 

Meanwhile, Home Affairs and Internal Security Minister Jack Mwiimbu claimed the violence that occurred in Kitwe and other parts of the country was started by PF members.

He warned that the police were investigating and that all those   found wanting will be brought to book.

“All the culprits involved in this sad saga will be brought to book,” he said.

Mr Mwiimbu said President Hakainde Hichilema has always made a passionate appeal to all citizens not to condone violence and he has also always emphasised that the country should never go back to the dark days of the PF where violence was prevalent during public events.

He said the new dawn administration is aware that during the reign of the PF, members of the opposition were being attacked during events including those held at church premises.

And first deputy speaker of Parliament Chisangano directed the Ministry of Home Affairs to render a ministerial statement on Wednesday next week to update the House and the nation on what caused violence in Kitwe and other parts of the country on Youth Day.

Intracerebral hemorrhage, and bleeding into the brain tissue, is a devastating neurological condition affecting millions of people annually. It has a high mortality rate, while survivors are affected by long-term neurological deficits. No medication has been found to support brain recovery following hemorrhage.