A man irrigates muguka (khat) crop using water from a pan in Gachuriri area of Mbeere South, Embu County. [Joseph Muchiri, Standard] Although miraa chewers scoff at muguka, the new kid on the block is ...

On Tuesday, Somalia agreed to lift its recently imposed ban on imports of the mildly psychoactive leaf khat after an outcry of protest from angry cultivators in its western neighbor Kenya. The ...

Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization describes muguka as a variety of khat/miraa known as Catha edulis in botanical terms. "The differences between muguka and khat or miraa is in the ...

NAIROBI (AFP) – Angry Kenyan farmers growing the stimulant khat, a crop branded a drug and banned by Britain, demanded Monday that British army training bases and British-owned farms be shut down in ...

MOGADISHU, Somalia - Miraa traders in the Somali capital, Mogadishu have joined the diplomatic spat and sided with the national government and say they will halt importing Miraa from Kenya, Garowe ...

Somalia has banned Kenyan flights bringing stashes of the herbal stimulant khat into the country in the Horn of Africa. Khat—also known as miraa—is consumed widely in Somalia but is grown in ...