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 ...

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 ...

ASNAF, Yemen — It’s hard to know if it was the years of isolation in a remote village, or the years spent chewing on a narcotic leaf called khat, or maybe a bit of both, but Aziz Mohammed Hasben ...

DJIBOUTI—In this overwhelmingly Muslim nation, alcohol is frowned upon and hard drugs are exceedingly rare. But one stimulant dominates the lives of Djibouti's half-million citizens: khat, a green ...

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.

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-old rule of President Ali Abdullah Saleh. Thursday, activists took aim at a ...