it's also crazy about the business needle being used for government coming up on the program. how can west africa 5 back against the drug that's destroying it to young people. this won't be like effect of course the drug causing so much have or can sir in the own, that the president has declared that a public enemy will look at how best has become such a huge threat library as also fighting cush, dw gains access to a drug house in monrovia with some of cushions, victims go to get that high. a drought sweeping across southern africa has

wiped out most of them. bob waste planted crumbs. the government says that desperately needs assistance to keep the people from going hungry. the i'm told me on logical hello and a warm welcome to the program. a highly addictive drugs is destroying west africa's use. it's called kush and sarah neo and president julia's my that b o has declared a national emergency on drug abuse. responding to a drastic increase in the use of kush crushes a synthetic drug with devastating effects is called hundreds of death as well as major psychiatric damage to some uses and it's the main victims. a young sir in the audience. as a few past and cush, catapults to use into a trance like state. once high,

they sway their bodies back in full, appearing somebody like in drowsy. it's about $25.00. few as sensitize kush is a relatively cheap and easy way to escape reality. but the kick only last for an hour, then they need to buy more dependencies, destroying the lives of many young sierra leone units. i mean, they say i have to purge my body of this substance company. since i started smoking 5 years ago, my body is now addicted to this thing. i have to buy medication, but i don't have the ability to a myself, so afraid that's phone. so it's difficult to deep ramco roma is a social work. he often visits crushed, use a hide out, select this one and free town. stow, there are no statistics on crush addiction. he believes it's the most urgent issue that government needs to deal with. young people die young people on

die. we need a city and football strategy. so c o young people to control mrs world and see what's on his breath. it's multi moments. it is right along to see really and only psychiatric hospital is overwhelmed with cush addicts. more than half of those admitted i use us, but stuff say these are the worst cases. and only the tip of the ice book. you go down to the box, you put onto this treat suit onto to get those. to find much more, you know, people using these substances on the box has been created on them. now what we see here with crushed addiction, rapidly on the rise. c, around the, on the president has declared a national substance abuse emergency and set up a special task force we're making calls the fact that they have to come by the

spanish. but unfortunately, we are experiencing, it's called the push consumption and escalated fatalities. it's clear that cushion is highly addictive and destructive. what's less clear is with comes from school, where it's going. reports say it is already destroying lice. the neighboring countries, like guinea and liberia. kush is not just a problem for syria, leo and but also some neighboring countries. back in january libraries and new president joseph book, i used his 1st stage of the nation address to declare the use of kush a public health emergency and an existential threat for the country. now my colleague is kamani travel to monrovia not so long ago to find out more about the child into there, and she joins us now from nairobi. hi, it is you tell us about what you witnessed in liberia. well, as soon as we got to monrovia,

one of the 1st things people kept telling us is you have to talk about this problem of course. but the challenge is that we can see the challenge. we can see the problem here and very well, we would see people nodding off as it's cold when you completely zoned out. but it didn't really reflect what people was saying. it's only until we went to what's called a trap house in a bundle building where people take drugs the be really good to see what the child enjoys. and so this is the report that be filed as part of the 77 percent, which is the w's african fletcher program. or the tuesday is the day is a drug here which has ravaged some of its use cushion feeds. assume septic drug was to originate and co position is still not fully understood. what is become of us to popular drug for distribution to youth who have nothing to look forward to that. so we're going to speak to some of them to understand why the interest rate and what it means because the site itself, the i'm

told these ruins how's at least $300.00 people. almost everyone here smokes crushed for about 4 years now. it's been severely affecting liberia as useful to this. you've had to put into less of what i quickness seen, because it's not anything that i've ever seen this before. every room with a 2 x m 2 and 3, and i'm fissions and this prison, all 3 entities crushed like crack delivers a brief yet powerful, high wind smoke cessation quickly fades leaving the use a in a kind of home. i mean william cooper, who is smoking a single punitive push for $0.50? yes. okay. sometimes you know, may june for the 5. did you see able to forget what a warranty? i don't think i've been bothering you. so when did this, you loud yourself was

a time when you're waiting to get into the body to complete it, where you see how get bonded street. the one in to get saw a damn file, so to consume the individuals addicted to drugs in this area referred to as so goes a to them a came to zombies, the ruins, also shelter many women to support the drug habits. some of them engage in commercial sex work. i've seen a few women here who are pregnant. what happens when they get dressed? said it's, and some people get ready to die and it was scanned. is it dangerous here for you as women? no, no, no. all you took the mooney and did you have the free run or when it was going to give you like in the morning? does that happen to you? yeah, yeah. all right, thank you. the conditions here characterized by re drug

abuse, violence and drug tests. disease are shocking and hungry. people here result to various means to earn money, some so food, while others work at the beach plumbing concrete. drug addiction has incapacitated menu. the recently cuba close is claimed to the lives of 2 residents. i mean this to low cost raising funds to support the affected the how did it become such a penetrative drug in might be, why do you think the government has been slow to respond? i think the reason is is that some of the very gone or officials, you go, i thought of this then go drugs you yep, i did. and then the drug unit do you have some member of the bottom is also involved in that a drug unit. so they would not want to put the free to love you at the, you know, if they use a bare with the goal,

not really nothing maybe alleged the politicians are benefiting from drug trafficking. a claim we hear from human resources and planned to investigate the re, the reason that i was the family was involved the have morning. no, i cannot to me when i go i'll be like, oh, loving things well when i agreed. okay, so our really leg for that. it helped to top tv. i mean it did that in the info. all right, so that can be don't have to this condition to guys. thank you so much for the opportunity this this house and the people the need to leave me both stunned and hot, broken. it's a stuck reminder of how society can neglected soon. these individuals cannot

overcome their challenges without support. but a chilling and sad watch them. it is, did you get a sense of why these people, the young people are getting into, into these drugs? well, obviously there's an individual story for every individual use that. but the general consensus is that a lot of these young men and women were born into war a time when liberia was really eating itself, come out of that into and it will up and delivery. and after that could be 19. and so it's been disaster of to disaster for each and every step of their lives. and so it's no surprise, but a lot of them, most of them off and turning to drugs and with no support from government, is still surprised that some of them have been in that house closing public for years. you've done a lot of reporting, you know, and, and various countries. but what, the, what impression that this one leave on you. and i can tell you that these are

images that i wouldn't be forgetting for a long time. when we were done filming, i turned around and there was a young man, a venture being done to that. he was just 20 years old. and he looked at me with such desperation and with a soft voice just said, please help us before it's too late. and i thought he's so desperate and he's just 20 years old. and i just don't see a way out for him at such a young age. and i could really relate to him because, you know, i'm not much older than human to imagine a world where you're trapped before you've been have a chance to fulfill your potential. dyslexia feeling very, very, very dejected. it is kimani in dw studio nairobi. we appreciate your reporting. thank you. last week now to principal luce, any executive director of the west africa and drug policy and network joining us from across. welcome to the building is africa. now, is it clear to you what this drug kush is made of?

you know, thank you for goods and they don't. yeah, it's absolutely clear. i mean, the room was about the composition of the drugs outside of the drug myself. it's what looks like, could i be a little bit more different? but it was that room was about the contents of the substance they has. um, tramadol, it has for my lean, ensue. i need the kids to live here. it has to my boss, but then i think they'll be need, there's a need for. ready ready advice on obviously, is of the substance as it may vary from one country to another. so we haven't got to that stage of properly even studying it. um, but do we know more about where it comes from, all who produces it of the, the source of this drove is,

is, is still clear, right? so depending on who you talk to away find you. so, i mean the, to, the claim is that the frequency, those birth to get up, i'd be friends produces, we are, you have to really find out the or region of the drug itself. so we're not sure as to whether it's come from abroad or whether it's produced locally or how it's traffic compared to other drugs. it is all clear. it's all good. all right, i'm just based on your studies and you'll observe ation of, of this do governments for example, in and certainly own or library have or even that was the way it was in west africa to africa where it's where you have this problem. do these governments seem to have a viable plan to address this specific issue any differently from how they've approached drugs in the past?

respectfully, i will say no. i mean the housing approach dro, any differently in the past. i mean us, we speak most of the laws and the region or the saw bridge on that, or we receive then for spans lead and uh, my organization on the west africa, federal forties. and that's what kind of the advocates have been absent when it is based. drew a glory full is an approach to a so based on human rights and for the show, it is good that a governments in liberia and see where they are not thinking about support because the approach but the, the law is the legislation remains punitive. and even the approach they are currently using, i guess is also is kids that's it's, it's also punitive. the blame is always on the victim. people who use drugs. so with the declare reasonable states of the majesty of drug abuse, i am hoping the diesels,

named in the formation of the tax forces will go see to your put the killed, the approved to run and then the criminal justice approach. i mean, that means we should have on what's on the team, so incarceration to punishments for drugs use. but as it stands right now, what i see in an idea of what i'm seeing and see where you, it doesn't look like absolute votes or need seem to criminal justice. or even if it's a board because the coach dan, look glass tips. i've seen how these will be out. we are dressed like the gum. yeah . they are using a model that is a public health approach. does that create in testing, making provisions for hom reduction and also um not as ease of, of the substance itself. so they can have the prevents of age and what makes this in particular, such a difficult drug and you know,

surrounding phenomenon to tackle as i'm particularly because the, the, the content of the, the, the, the, the, the, the major ingredients of these substances on. no, i think that's one regional problem and so it makes it difficult. so if you want to transfer, you want to address the problem. so you might be address and a dish of words, guns and the issues, the health related issues that we also have to address. so for example, if, even if i, even if use old or defendants are appropriate, my teachers are still sticking to draw. they would have went ahead to and it said issues, i knew how to do the also i have with us to show the problems that we have to do. so i'm the speed at which it's destroyed lives in the hell it suits is, is beyond what we measure. so it's any kind it fast paced destructive substance that would really need an administration that has social status

use on the going to college and to be able to address it. okay, we'll have to leave the conversation that but principal as any from the west africa, drug police, the network, thank you very much for speaking to us. you're most welcome. thank you for or the extreme weather has been hitting communities across africa just this week, temperature's reach 48.5 degrees celsius in molly, of africa's hottest recorded day in the month of april. the heat wave has killed more than a 100 people in mali. oval wyoming the mugs. over in the horn of africa, there's been heavy rain in one incident to northern kenya, a bus with more than 50 passengers, was swept away in flood waters. fortunately, all of those on board managed to escape the safety for the south zambia malawi ends

and bob weigh heavily declared a state of disaster. the reins of failed drought has destroyed the harvest and agencies a 24000000 people in the region, face hunger at malnutrition, scientists attribute the severity of these events. the climate change the effect of human activity and natural weather patterns like el nino drought is a fact of life for many people in southern and eastern africa. but el nino events like the current one can make the problem much worse. here's why. as also it occurs in the pacific el nino effects the weather right across our planet. usually see winds push warm water from the west coast of south america across the ocean towards asia. but in el nino years, the water is off the coast of south america and the california heat up more than usual that causes many rain clouds to form over this part of the ocean. normally

the strong winds along the equator would push the warm surface water to the west, feeding rainfall in asia and africa. but in fall and winter of el nino years, these winds are weaker than usual and often blowing the wrong direction towards the east. that pushes the clouds inland, where they dump their rain in north, central and south america. this has knock on effect and the rest of the world, including africa, causing droughts and floods because of the changing rain patterns of the drought sweeping across southern africa has wiped out 80 percent of the above ways crops present. amazon goggle, it says the country needs about $2000000000.00 to keep people from going hungry. the w corresponding privilege, machinery, route file. this report 9 to one year old page now is that kim

come by me from zimbabwe is google show and we're all community is inspecting what the lead to is left of these crops visa, hard times for the know not doing that in is he contemplates the months ahead. good years. he often has listed more than 2 tons of grain from this field, but this time he will barely get a 50 kilogram sick. version is from now until the next tab just in february we really think we are going to suffer. we are going to stuff a, i do. i see people die. if we don't want you to approve us. i'm like is u. s a v a dry spill is the ricky hubble across between baldwin and other southern african countries. the port range mean about 2700000 people will not have

enough to eat on the table is the see. it may is, is this type of food in zimbabwe. but when clubs say you like this, it is tough for many families. people are now trying to figure out how they will survive in the coming months when the situation is expected to get west isn't by was president, is appealed for you. money, terry, and assistance to feed. the hungry top on our pile priority is securing food for somebody else knows and bubbling must succumb to or die from honda but quite feels like these are likely to get with scientists predict increasingly frequent droughts in coming years in the u. n. food and agriculture organization sees countries must invest in drought proofing the agriculture in most countries, investment in the product as

a down is lucky. so national, international resources partners need to invest in thought resilience because it is the most important and has that before. so i don't know if it got it out. so some of the like is i key, i'm gonna come by the old tentative what that associates like, these essential live saving improvements. what was it about was traditional reign, fed agriculture, large parts of west africa style region, the plague, 5 violence. you had hist, insurgencies, but one country stands out as an exception. mauritania has not seen a terror attack for more than a decade. oh, it's a stock contrast from its next door neighbor molly, which is a haven for as long as the militant groups. the border between them runs for 2000 kilometers. mauritania inside is patrolled by a unique force known as the merest dw maria gas. nicholas school met them and sent

us this report as the villagers always seem to celebrate. when the movers arrived, the men on camels provide practical things like medicines, but also the sense of not being forgotten by the outside. whereas in the people in this remote village or team to share their latest problem, the water pump is broken, which means humans and animals have to travel to finally water. and the disability are used to be full of people, but many have left because of the lack of water informed that the pump, so that was essential for drinking water has been broken for 4 months. they submitted the problem to us and we will follow up with the leadership of the in the heart of the commander will take the best decision by to get mad at the bottom the, the hers don't own the act as

a link to far away authorities. their task was protecting people and these remote areas from criminals and insurgents. the patrol desert areas near the border with the molly violence conflict, including the hottest insurgency, is raging on the other side. the harris one to stop it spreading. has a big deal with these people at the desert and it could be targeted by the tire resisting, said that it could be targeted by the criminals who said we try to educate them and we stay in touch with them because we fear that some group might change the people's minds and then lead them to join these groups, which would create a problem for the entire world. and i will tell you, oh my god, we are always in touch with them. and then we tell them to let us know if they see anything or hear anything about these groups whom godaddy silver. see what my sister to see. but i thought i knew nothing. in the heart of a recruited from the nomad communities in the region. they know the desert better

than anyone and sometimes spend several weeks omission to reach the remotest villages that would add to that. and we are not tired of this. and we love this way of life. we are happier than desert than in the city. and then we want to keep our heritage and how we want to keep this originality inherited from our ancestors ago on a waiting youth. then carol know a guy who actually leads the brigade. he says the mate, harris helps mauritania to minimize the terrorist threat. who so the object involved preventative measures, whether at a military with social level consist of gathering information about the enemy, collecting information about its sleep of cells. yeah. can we do this so we can intervene before a surprise attack or rather do that. so that way the prevention is best as in the queue of you guys, right? that's what i'd go with. like for some this is a flicker of hope in the face of ever expanding conflict in the rest of this i how

or oh that's it for now, but be sure to check out other stories on our website on social media and see you next time. bye for now, the

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