Sierra Leone: A cheap synthetic drug called kush is ravaging youth apnews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from apnews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
kush, a derivative of cannabis mixed with synthetic drugs like fentanyl and tramadol and chemicals like formaldehyde - makes people lethargic, desperate and ill. But beyond slogans encouraging young people to stay away from the drug, there is not much else the authorities have done to help addicts
In Sierra Leone, a cheap, synthetic drug is ravaging youth. Trash-strewn alleys are lined with boys and young men slumped in addiction. Healthcare services are severely limited. One frustrated community has set up what it calls a treatment center, run by volunteers. But harsh measures can be used.
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Illegal Sierra Leonean Miners Dying in Liberia
Illegal Sierra Leonean Miners Dying in Liberia
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Unmarked graves of Gabriel Bangura, Alex Conteh, Layei Kanu and Mohamed Fontan, Sierra Leonean miners who died on Liberian mines, in a cemetery outside of Henry Town, Gbarpolu County. FrontPage Africa/James Harding Giahyue
HENRY TOWN, Liberia and KENEMA, Sierra Leone – Ibrahim Sesay, a Sierra Leonean miner, never signed up to die when he crossed into Liberia in 2008 in search of greener pasture on mines in Korninga Chiefdom of Gbarpolu’s Bopolu District.
A New Narratives cross-border investigation by Mae Azango and Emma Black, in Sierra Leone and Liberia