Somalia has agreed to lift a two-year ban on air shipments of khat from Kenya as part of a new trade deal, a Kenyan minister announced Friday, a further sign of rekindled ties after several years of ...

WAJID, Somalia -- Before Somalia's government collapsed in 1991, Maryann Ali was an elementary school teacher who spent her days giving fifth-graders geography and math lessons. Now she earns a living ...

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - "The president has arrived, the president has arrived," chant youths in Mogadishu's Beerta Khaatka market, as armed men in trucks mounted with machine guns escort lorries with ...

Khat In The Somali Community is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire Tablet, Roku, Samsung ...

Khat is a leafy green plant that contains a drug that is a stimulant. Khat is most frequently used in the Horn of Africa and parts of the Middle East. President Mohamud took office in May of this year ...

Garowe, Puntland – Kenya’s Khat planes have defied Somali Federal Government’s directive to enter its airspace and delivered Khat loads to Puntland region, Garowe online reports. A check by GO ...

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Nothing much works in Somalia — not water or sanitation, not health or education. But despite the absence of state structures (or perhaps because of it), three things function with amazing smoothness: ...

NAIROBI, Kenya - A consignment of Khat worth $250,000 was on Tuesday intercepted by KDF along the shores of the Indian Ocean, in one of the major operations since the closure of major international ...

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — Five men and women convicted of smuggling millions of dollars’ worth of the illegal African drug khat into the U.S. all received prison sentences of one year or less Friday, ...

Before the coronavirus hit, Muna Nur Farah had started to hate her husband. He’d slink into their home in the Somali capital Mogadishu at 3:00am with empty pockets, his money squandered on the ...

A rash of khat seizures over the past 10 days could mean Fargo is becoming a popular stopover for the illegal stimulant on its way from Africa to Minneapolis. The drug's growing profile showed itself ...