In the blistering heat of Freetown, Sierra Leone, young men gather on street corners, their limbs swollen, eyes glazed. They ...

Women in Liberia are leading the charge against the rampant drug abuse ravaging youths in the West African nation.

The Kingdom of Kush once ruled the Nile Valley and even conquered Egypt, but its story faded from history. This feature ...

Authorities confiscated 16 packs of dried marijuana leaves worth P22.6 million from an arriving passenger at the NAIA ...

UNESCO World Heritage CentreThe Archaeological Sites of the Island of Meroe, a semi-desert landscape between the Nile and Atbara rivers, was the heartland of the Kingdom of Kush, a major power from ...

The name alone, Kush, is enough to start up a conversation. "Although we are not cannabis-infused, that is one of the first questions that we always get asked," Chef Saba said.

They’re boning up to get high. Addicts digging up human bones as part of a recipe to make the drug kush has become a national emergency in Sierra Leone and is slowly moving to other West African ...

Customs officers say a 21-year-old British woman was stopped with 101 pounds of kush — a synthetic drug containing powerful opioids — packed in two suitcases.

Kush user Ahmed Kang, 30, sits on his bunk at the City of Rest rehabilitation center in Grafton, Sierra Leone. Kang, who is on his third stint at the facility, says it took ten police officers to ...

And yet, among the 50 people — majority of whom are kush users — who filed into one of Sierra Leone’s two government-run rehab centers on a recent day, only three were women.