Abdulmalik, a 13-year-old boy from Yemen’s capital city Sana’a, started chewing khat leaves at the age of seven. “My father would pass me small handfuls at weddings,” he told The Media Line. “But I ...

Moves are underway by the Police Narcotics Bureau to ban the import of khat, a plant with strongly narcotic properties that has already been barred in European countries. Police Narcotic Bureau (PNB) ...

Is Khat really bad news or just another political football being kicked around our embattled minority communities? Khat is a green leafy shrub grown around the Red Sea region and the East Coast of ...

Yonas Getu Molla started chewing khat as an architecture student, when he and his friends would munch on the leafy stimulant late into the night to help them study. When they closed their books, their ...

Tucked away in the backroom of a restaurant in Toronto, a group of Somali friends gathers to relax in the early evening. One of them carefully reaches into his pocket and pulls out a bundle of khat, ...

The Netherlands is planning a ban. In Germany it is already illegal. But critics say prohibiting khat, which produces a mild high when chewed, unfairly targets Somali communities and their culture.

Nagy Ali Mohammed is not worried about a water shortage in Yemen. He says God will provide what is needed for the craggy, volcanic land where he grows khat, a leaf chewed daily by most Yemeni men.

Yonas Getu Molla started chewing khat as an architecture student, when he and his friends would munch on the leafy stimulant late into the night to help them study. Mohamed Omar, who has been chewing ...

Ousman Abdulahi (R) and his friends chewing khat at a roadside shop in “Little Mogadishu”, Addis Ababa. Photo courtesy: AFP Mekele (AFP) — Yonas Getu Molla started chewing khat as an architecture ...