Khat is a green leafy shrub grown around the Red Sea region and the East Coast of Africa. This cash crop is chewed raw and produces a mild amphetamine response in the brain and severe long term ...

Khat addiction may also cause cerebral haemorrhage, high blood pressure, cardio diseases, abdominal diseases, genital diseases and other illnesses.

Abubakr Awale is an anti-khat campaigner in the UK, and knows only too well the paranoia and isolation khat addiction engenders in the young men in the marfishes. Seven years ago he was one of them.

But it’s an addiction that’s being enabled by humanitarian aid. The Yemeni government recently estimated that the khat industry was worth about $12 billion to the country.

Khat is a plant chewed daily by millions – but is it a harmless cultural tradition or a dangerously addictive stimulant? In this video, we explore the history, effects, and global controversy ...

Khat, known to botanists as Catha Edulis, is an amphetaminelike stimulant. In Yemen and other countries in the Horn of Africa, khat has been cultivated for thousands of years.

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 ...

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.

Yemen will need more than faith in the divine to avert a crisis. The Middle Eastern nation's addiction to khat is sucking up scarce water resources. Cultivation of the mild stimulant has increased ...

Abubakr Awale is an anti-khat campaigner in the UK, and knows only too well the paranoia and isolation khat addiction engenders in the young men in the marfishes. Seven years ago he was one of them.