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THE Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) says it will not be making any comments the reports that the Commission has placed a restriction order on the House belonging to Solicitor General Marshal Muchende over allegations that he received US$500, 000 from a named liquidator 

“Let that noise continue making noise and we will do our job. We will not answer to press queries. My answer is no comment whether it is there or not there, the ACC will do its job. So for me, no comment, Mr Shamakamba said.

But Economic Front (EF) leader Wynter Kabimba SC has given Mr Shamakamba a seven day ultimatum to disclose the nature of the investigations against Mr Muchende, or he would have no option but to seek legal redress in the courts of law to force the ACC to disclose the nature of investigations.

The Daily Revelation, an online newspaper recently broke a news story from State House sources revealing that the ACC has placed a restriction order on the house belonging to Muchende over assertions that he received over US$500,000 from a named former liquidator, but that powerful forces were maneuvering to stop the investigations.

According the Daily Revelation, Mr Kabimba has since written to the commission, saying his own impeccable sources have collaborated the Daily Revelation story.

It is reported that Mr Kabimba has written a letter to Mr Shamakamba, stating that his sources have told him that the ACC had decided to withhold information from the general public in the on-going investigations against Muchende.

 “This silence is contrary to your well-established policy of keeping the general public informed about investigations in matters of public interest,” the Daily Revelation reports.

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Picture this scenario: You and a friend are walking around your neighborhood when you stop at a crosswalk. As you wait, the noises of the world and your internal thoughts all vie for your attention. Suddenly, you see a motorist nearly hit a bicyclist.

Women with ME/CFS tend to have more symptoms and co-occurring conditions than men, according to initial results from the world’s largest study of the disease. It has long been known that women are more likely to have ME/CFS (myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome) but the DecodeME study has shown for the first time how their experience differs from men.

Professor Bernd Rehm and Dr. Shuxiong Chen from the Griffith Institute for Drug Discovery (GRIDD) and Griffith’s Center for Cell Factories and Biopolymers have succeeded in developing a new vaccine modality that is a stable particulate vaccine.

THE strong affection for nice nourishing body lotion and having shinny polished shoes has landed two Lusaka youths in court after they were arrested, a day apart, stealing from two different ShopRite stores. In the case involving theft of lotion, the suspect is Donald Kanakamu, a wielder aged 20. Kanakumu is charged with theft, an […]

…there has never been any question for Morocco to take part in ‘BRICS/Africa’ meeting at any level whatsoever ‘’ according statement disclosed by Maghreb Arab Press, the official Moroccan Agency of Press says

By NATION REPORTER 

THE Kingdom of Morocco will not join the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) group and will therefore not be attending the summit in South Africa, the Magreb Arab Press, the official Moroccan Agency of Press has said.

For the Kingdom of Morocco, there has never been any question of responding positively to the invitation to the “BRICS/Africa” meeting scheduled to take place in South Africa, or of taking part in this meeting at any level whatsoever, says an authorized source from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, African Cooperation and Moroccan Expatriates.

In response to recent media reports referring to a hypothetical bid by the Kingdom to join the “BRICS” group, as well as its possible participation in the next “BRICS/Africa” meeting, scheduled for August 24 in Johannesburg, South Africa, the same source stresses that this was not a BRICS or African Union initiative, but an invitation from South Africa, in its national capacity.

“It’s a meeting organized on the basis of a unilateral initiative by the South African government”, says the same source, adding that Morocco has therefore assessed this invitation in the light of its strained bilateral relationship with this country.

According to the same source, South Africa has always shown a primary hostility towards the Kingdom, and has systematically taken negative and dogmatic positions on the question of the Moroccan Sahara.

“Pretoria has thus multiplied, both nationally and within the African Union, its notoriously malicious actions against Morocco’s higher interests,” according to the same source.

As proof, the source adds, the deliberate and provocative breaches of protocol that marked Morocco’s invitation to this meeting. Worse still, many countries and entities appear to have been invited arbitrarily by the host country, without any real basis or prior consultation with the other member countries of the BRICS Group.

“It had thus become clear that South Africa was going to hijack this event from its nature and purpose, to serve a hidden agenda”, says the same source, noting that Morocco consequently ruled out, from the outset, any favorable reaction to the South African invitation.

With regard to the Kingdom of Morocco’s relationship with the BRICS Group, the Ministry’s authorized source notes that, once again, South African diplomacy has arrogated to itself the right to talk about Morocco and its relationship with the BRICS, without prior consultation, deeming this to be “approximations” that in no way reflect reality.

For the same source, Morocco does indeed maintain substantial and promising bilateral relations with the other four members of the Group, and is even linked to three of them by Strategic Partnership Agreements. However, the Kingdom has never formally applied for membership of the BRICS group“There is as yet no framework or precise procedures governing the expansion of this grouping,” says the same source.

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In mice, cognitive decline is influenced by obesity due to the potential association of an adipose-brain axis. To examine this proposal, Núria Olivera-Canellas, and a team of researchers in the departments of medicine and diabetes at the University of Girona, Spain, identified 188 genes by using RNA sequencing of adipose tissue in three patient cohorts associated with cognitive performance. The genes had associations with synaptic function, anti-inflammatory signaling, vitamin metabolism, phosphatidylinositol metabolism and the complement cascade.

A gene variant found almost exclusively in the genomes of people of African ancestry increases the risk of developing Parkinson’s disease, according to an international study of nearly 198,000 participants with this genetic background. Published in The Lancet Neurology, the study results suggest the risk may be linked to a variant in the gene encoding β-glucocerebrosidase (GBA1), a protein known to control how cells in the body recycle proteins.

By NATION REPORTER 

JACK Mwiimbu has overturned the decision by Inspector General Graphael Musamba to reject a notification by the Patriotic Front (PF) to hold its mass public rally and has allowed the former ruling party to proceed with its political gathering slated for this weekend.

Last week, Mr Musamba rejected an application by the PF to hold a mass rally this Saturday in Lusaka’s Zingalume area citing security reasons.

But yesterday, after holding a meeting with the PF, Mr Mwiimbu, the Home Affairs and Internal Security Minister approved the notification and the former ruling party would now have to proceeed with its planned political gathering.

Mr Mwiimbu, responding to a letter of appeal written by the rally’s organising chairperson, Mr Christopher Shakafuswa dated August 17, 2023, stated that he had considered the appeal and guided that the rally organisers should file a fresh notification of intention to hold the public rally. 

He also proposed alternative dates so as to allow the Zambia Police Service to indicate a favourable date for purposes of providing security.

owever, PF member of the central committee, Raphael Nakacinda, who had earlier led a delegation to meet Mr Mwiimbu welcomed the development but insisted that the party gave adequate notice to the authorities and would be pleased to hold the rally on Saturday.

He said the former ruling party would today engage Mr Musamba to iron out logistical and security issues so that the meeting could take place as scheduled.

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The most common types of large vessel vasculitis (LVV) are giant cell arteritis (GCA) and Takayasu arteritis (TAK). The main feature of both is chronic inflammation of the arteries. Rapid management is key to preventing damage to the artery walls leading to blindness or aneurysm.