The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) has announced that last month its Pacific Region Intelligence Section, with assistance from the Agency’s National Targeting Centre, identified a container of ...
Two Somali women charged with importing drugs in a mailed package containing the banned stimulant khat have been released on bail, two weeks after being arraigned. Ayan Awil Mohamed, 26, and Hodon ...
In New York, three Somali men were recently convicted of smuggling khat, a leafy plant that produces a high when chewed for long periods. Immigrants in Minneapolis-St. Paul, home to three of the four ...
SEATTLE — It is a stimulant and social elixir widely used in East Africa and the Arabian Peninsula, and it is one with more than 40 street names in this country, including khat, chat, gat, qat, ...
Khat is a green, leafy plant typically grown in the Arabian Peninsula and many parts of Africa. It is chewed for its stimulant effect. A joint effort between U.S. Homeland Security Agencies, Customs ...
Afgoye, Somalia – The mood is tense. A group of young men, some in soldier’s uniforms, gather near empty market stalls in this small town 30km west of Mogadishu, the capital. Standing silently, their ...