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 addiction may also cause cerebral haemorrhage, high blood pressure, cardio diseases, abdominal diseases, genital diseases and other illnesses. Share This Post. Tweet. Facebook Twitter Email ...

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 ...

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.

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.

The Middle Eastern nation's addiction to khat is sucking up scarce water resources. Cultivation of the mild stimulant has increased thirteenfold in three decades and now uses 30 percent of the ...

Most khat chewers make do with dryer leaves and tiny twigs that come in tightly wrapped, fist- sized bundles of dampened cloth. The dry leaves are revived by soaking them in tea or water before ...

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 ...

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. Ethiopia's state-run Substance ...

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.