27/08/2014

How Britain?s ban on khat created a supply glut in Somalia

?The president has arrived, the president has arrived,? chant youths in Mogadishu?s Beerta Khaatka market, as armed men in trucks mounted with machine guns escort lorries with horns blaring through the throng. The joking salutation is not for Somalia?s president, but hails white sacks brimming with leafy sprouts of...
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