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

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

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.

How do you define peace in a country where children die because hospitals lack oxygen? How do you rank as peaceful a nation ruled by fear, ...

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 ...

The 67th Summit of the Authority of Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of West African States ended last ...

The small Western African state earlier this month concluded a round of seismic research that it now hopes would lure ...

We think of human rights abuses as wartime atrocities, but sometimes they involve what family members do to the people they ...