Read the main article on Kenyan Christians defending khat. Khat use has rarely been studied clinically and “has largely escaped medical attention,” according to Farrah J. Mateen and Gregory D. Cascino ...

The British government has decided to ban the import and use of khat, after years of turning a blind eye to the herbal stimulant. As recently as January 2013, the U.K. Advisory Council on the Misuse ...

At the Horn of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula, chewing Khat predates the use of coffee. Socially, their uses are similar. When chewed, the leaves act as a stimulant due to the cathinone content.

It’s an oval-shaped, bitter tasting leaf that makes you chatty after chewing it, while inducing a feeling of euphoria and alertness. The East African plant khat, a mild narcotic, has been chewed for ...

Khat (Catha edulis) is a plant native to East Africa and the Arabian Peninsula, chewed for its stimulant effects by millions worldwide. Its sympathomimetic properties, primarily due to cathinone and ...

Khat, a stimulant drug, is chewed by around 90,000 people in the east African and Yemeni communities in the UK. But now the Home Office is considering banning the substance. Jamal Osman finds out why.

Lately, law enforcers have carried-out six seizures of khat, a New Psychotropic Substance (NPS) drug, in different areas of Bangladesh. Bangladesh’s largest-ever consignment of khat was seized at ...

Khat - the stimulant leaves and twigs of the plant Catha edulis - seemed to have secure legal status in Kenya despite being illegal elsewhere. It had been declared an official cash crop in 2016, and ...

SANAA, Yemen — For nearly a year, tens of thousands of Yemenis have taken to the streets to call for an end to the 33-year rule of President Ali Abdullah Saleh. Activists Thursday took aim at a ...

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 ...

Noon in the Yemen. A sullen hour with the sun at its scorching zenith, the entire country is tense, on the verge of a national itch. When matters of war, and near-famine, fade to irrelevance. Relief ...

Neil Carrier received funding for his research into khat / miraa from the UK's Economic and Social Research Council (for his PhD studentship and subsequent postdoctoral fellowship). This move brought ...