Trade groups behind the plant, a popular stimulant, put pressure on Kenyan authorities to end the 15-year closure.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York authorities on Friday announced criminal charges against 17 people accused of running an ...

Khat, or Catha edulis, is a shrub native to the Horn of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. Its leaves are chewed for their stimulant effects, a practice deeply embedded in the social and cultural ...

The Ministry of Trade and Regional Integration reports that contraband trade and taxes levied by regional administrations ...

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 ...

High above Minneapolis, the prefab-concrete Cedar-Riverside towers are crowded with newly arrived East African immigrants. Yemenis and Somalis spend weekends in the subsidized high-rises chewing over ...

Khat: the cocaine of Africa—the mint green leaf of the shrub Catha edulis—is a way of life in the new nation of Djibouti and the ancient land of Yemen. Grown on large farms resembling old-world tea ...

ADDIS ABABA — The cultural tradition of chewing khat, a leaf that is a mild narcotic, is on the rise in Ethiopia. The East African nation is one of the world's chief exporters of the crop, earning ...

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia – 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, ...

NEW YORK (CBS 2)-- Customs officials at New York area airports are cracking down on a drug called khat. Authorities at JFK's International Postal Facility told CBS 2's Tony Aiello that they are ...

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) ...

It is a rainy Sunday afternoon in Peckham, south-east London, and if recent sensational reports are to be believed, I am shortly going to risk my life. Behind a blue door on an otherwise unremarkable ...