The people of Yemen have long-since been bogged down with an addiction to qat. A staple of Yemeni life, the plant can be seen rearing its ugly green head in swollen cheeks across the country as ...

Traditional weddings in Yemen are usually the scene of joyful faces, strings of lights and until recently, swollen cheeks full of qat. Chewed by millions of men and women every day, the green ...

TAIZ, Yemen - Before war came, Khalid Omar was only an occasional user of qat, sitting around with friends and chewing its narcotic leaves. First he lost his well-paid job with an oil company in ...

Khat, a stimulant or recreational drug, is being used more in South Africa. While the plant itself is not new to SA, its use ...

Sales of qat have been blamed for causing traffic jams in the city (AFP) Authorities in south Yemen have banned the sale of the mild narcotic qat on working days, allowing it into the city of Aden ...

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DUBAI, Jan 22 (Reuters) - Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis have released the crew of the Galaxy Leader more than a year after they seized their Bahamas-flagged vessel off the Yemeni Red Sea coast ...

About 40 percent of Yemen’s dwindling water resources go to qat irrigation. Ever since the river that ran through al Kholani’s farm suddenly dried up, he has had to draw more than 10,000 ...

Khat is illegal in the U.S. and legal in Yemen. His mother "chewed khat to cope with difficult situations; she specifically used it in Yemen during this time" when she was pregnant, Musaibli's ...

Oral cancer is diagnosed in people younger than 40 in these two regions and could be related to widespread chewing of qat leaves and tobacco ... Saudi Arabia and Yemen, according to studies.