Since its introduction into the retail drug market of West Africa, kush has soared in popularity as deaths associated with it ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — A new report released Tuesday by an anti-transnational crime group has identified the core chemical ...

Tests conducted by the Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime found it contained nitazenes and synthetic ...

The Netherlands and the United Kingdom are the main suppliers of Kush, a deadly synthetic drug, in Sierra Leone, Nieuwsuur ...

(Reuters) - New testing of a cheap and deadly drug that has triggered a national emergency in Sierra Leone reveals it is composed of synthetic opioids and cannabinoids imported from abroad, according ...

Scores of young people in Sierra Leone have become addicted to kush, a drug that threatens the lives of its users and others in their communities. The local government in Sierra Leone's capital ...

On Monday, Guinean authorities impounded a vehicle belonging to Sierra Leone's embassy and detained its occupants on suspicion of possessing "substances suspected to be cocaine", Sierra Leone's ...

Cocaine/Kush intake has sharply increased across Sierra Leone – from urban cities into rural communities. With vulnerable youth and young girls greatly involve in the consumption of this harmful ...

This event discusses recent research and policy developments, including the role of the Eastern and Southern Africa Commission on Drugs, and how political leadership impacts regional drug policy. This ...

Kush is a new zombie drug that's ravaging Sierra Leone. Amid fears over the crisis there's a shocking new twist: the use of ground-up human bones as one of the drug's ingredients.

Sierra Leone has a rich history, from slavery and the slave trade as one of the worst indelible marks on the conscience of mankind, to ...

[AFP] Sierra Leone authorities on Saturday burned Sh27m ($200,000) worth of narcotic drugs and chemicals used to manufacture the synthetic drug kush, two weeks after drug abuse was declared a ...