A cheap synthetic drug known as kush is ravaging West Africa and its epicentre is Sierra Leone. The government has declared ...

Kush, a synthetic cocktail usually made from marshmallow leaves, first appeared in Sierra Leone in the early 2020s and ...

The synthetic drug kush, first seen in Sierra Leone in 2022, has now spread into much of West Africa while also evolving into ...

Parliament has formally launched a region-wide campaign to fight the spread of kush, a deadly psychoactive drug that is ...

A red shipping container sits on the tarmac of Sierra Leone's Queen Elizabeth II Quay, under swinging cranes and towering stacks of similar steel boxes.

Sierra Leone’s President Julius Maada Bio in April 2024 declared a state of emergency due to a spike in deaths caused by kush, a synthetic drug containing powerful opioids and sometimes ...

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In The Gambia, where kush has started crossing over, the government’s no-nonsense raids have driven the industry underground but not out. Blame is already taking a xenophobic turn, with Sierra ...