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Khat, or Catha edulis, is a shrub native to the Horn of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. Its leaves are chewed for their stimulant effects, a practice deeply embedded in the social and cultural ...

Calls for the herbal high khat to be banned in the UK have been renewed days before a government report into its usage is due to be published. On 5 January the Netherlands became the latest country to ...

It is a rainy Sunday afternoon in Peckham, south-east London, and if recent sensational reports are to be believed, I am shortly going to risk my life. Behind a blue door on an otherwise unremarkable ...

ADDIS ABABA — The cultural tradition of chewing khat, a leaf that is a mild narcotic, is on the rise in Ethiopia. The East African nation is one of the world's chief exporters of the crop, earning ...

The chewing of khat leaves is common in the Horn of Africa, but in eastern Ethiopia it is both big business and a big worry for the authorities. Khat is a major agricultural crop. Yet many some say it ...

In Hargeisa, the capital of a country ostracised by the rest of the world, khat is among the very few pleasures left for the vast mass of the dispossessed. Even the fortunate few who are in work rush ...