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.

SINGING sweetly as she packed her bag to leave the rehab centre, Mariama Turay vowed never again to smoke kush, the fearsome drug that wrecked her marriage – and countless lives in Sierra Leone.

Kush is a synthetic drug that is spreading quickly in west Africa, particularly in Sierra Leone, where it first appeared in 2022 and has since claimed thousands of lives.

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