of course, we say they're about never giving up every weekend on d w the, this is data being used for government coming up on the program. how kind of west africa 5 back against the drug that's destroying its young people. there's only 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 ways planted crops. the government says that desperately needs assistance to keep the people from going hungry.

the i'm told me on the logical hello in a warm welcome to the program. a highly addictive drugs is destroying west africa's use. it's called cush, sincere, and the own president, julia's mother b. o. has declared a national emergency on drug abuse, responding to a drastic increase in the use of cush pushes, a synthetic drug with devastating effects is called hundreds of best as well as major psychiatric damage to some uses. and it's a main victims, a young syria, the audience, as a few puffs 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. 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 that 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. what i don't have the ability to weigh myself fluffy, that's phone. so it's difficult to be for him. chrome is a social worker. he often visits crushed, use a hide out, select this one and free town. so there in those 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 we ought to g. so c o young people to control miss world and see what's on his breath is most of the moment it is right along seeing really and only psychiatric hospital is overwhelmed with crush addicts. more than half of those admitted i use this, but stuff say these are the worst cases. and only the tip of the iceberg. you go down to the box, you put it onto the street suit onto to get those. to find much more, you know, people using these substances on the inbox as being created on them. now what we see here with crushed addiction, rapidly on the rise, c, around the on the president has declared and 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 i'm fortunate, as we experience is called the course of consumption and

escalated fatalities. it's key. the push 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, edith 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, edith, you tell us about what you witnessed in library as 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, because 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, and so 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 we filed a thought of the 77 percent, which is the w's african fletcher program. the the to say is that there is a drug here which cause wrapping some of its use cushion feeds. i think that's a drug cause to originate and co position is still not fully understood, but it's become of the 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 sites on the i'm told these ruins housed at least 300 people. almost everyone here smokes goose

for about 4 years now. it's been severely affecting, they'd be as useful to this. it's hard to predict the west of what i quickness see . because it's not anything that i've ever experienced before. every room with a 2 x m $2.00 and $3.00 on a mission. and this prison, all 3 entities crush like crack, delivers a brief yet powerful, high wind smoke cessation. quickly fades leaving the use a in a kind of home. i need william cooper, who is smoking a single penny to push for $0.50? yes. okay. now, you know, in mid june, for the past, did you see able to forget what the war and what are the things that been bothering you. so when you take these, you love yourself was the time when you're waiting to get it's already bothered for predicts where you see or get bone in st. louis, we're wanting to get saw

a damn file, so to consume the individuals addicted to drugs in this area. referred to as so goes a term akin 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 breath said, and some people get ready to die and it was scanned. is it dangerous here for u. s. government? no, no, no, no. all you took the money and did you have the free run or when it was when it gives you the money? does that happen to you? yeah, the yeah. all right, thank you. the conditions here characterized by drug abuse, violence and drum disease are shocking and hungry. people here result to various

means to on money some so food, while others work at the beach plumbing concrete. drug addiction has incapacitated menu. the recently, cuba close has claimed the lives of 2 residents. i mean this to no cost of raising funds to support the affected the how did it become such a penetrative drug? it may 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, goldman, i thought of this, but then go drugs, you step out of the and then the drugs eating. yeah, some of the bottom is also involved in the drug unit. so do not want to put the free to love you. what are the you yeah, if they use a bare with the go live really nothing. the

media let's 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. well, if i don't have morning know, i can as to me when i go, i'll be like, oh, loving things. but when i agreed, okay, so our really leg for that. it helped to top tv. i mean it did that in the in fall. right. so that can be, don't have to. this isn't the guys. thank you so much for the opportunity. this house and the people the need to leave me both stunned and hydro can it's a stuck reminder of how society can neglected soon. these individuals cannot overcome their challenges without support. and

a chilling and sad watch them. it is you to 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 wellborn into war a time when liberia was really eating itself, come out of that into and it will up and a week and after that's cool, be 19. 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 often autonomy to drugs and with no support from government. it's no surprise 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 that he's just 20 years old. and i just didn'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 he meant 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 loose any executive director of the west african drug policy network, joining us from across welcome to the news 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 there are rumors about the composition of the drugs outside of the group myself. it's what looks like, can 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 from a lien in see under the case or see a little we hear it has human bones but then i think they'll be need there's a need for. ready ready my advice on obviously is of the substance as it may be 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? the, the source of this drove is, is, is to clear, right? so depending on who you talk to a way find to. so, i mean the, to,

the claim is that the frequency, those birth to get out by different reduces we are, you have to really find out the origin 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 gets on clear, is that right? i'm just based on your studies and yours of ation of, of this do governments, for example, in and certainly own or library i have or even that was the way it was in west africa go 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 drew any differently in the past. i mean us,

we speak most of the laws and the region or the soap regional and i or we'd be fees . then 1st name's lead. and uh, my organization on the west side of the capital forties. and that's what kind of the advocates have been actually one it is these drove low reform is an approach to a so based on human rights and for the show, it is good. the government's in liberia and it's really not thinking about support because the approach but the, the law is the legislation remains punitive. and even that approached, according to using, i guess is also is keeps optics. it's also punitive. the blame is always on the victims. people who use drugs. so with the declaration of a state of the majesty of drug abuse, i am hoping the diesel bins in the formation of the tax forces will go see to

put the killed approved to run in any criminal justice approach. i mean, that means we should have on hold, so need see. so incarceration to punishments for drugs use. but as it stands right now, what i see in an idea of what i've seen in serial you, it doesn't look like absolute votes or need seem to criminal justice. or even if it's a board, because i push the class that 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 not create in testing, making provisions for hom reduction. and also, um, not as ease of, of the substance itself so they can have the properties of edge. 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. ready the, the, the, the major ingredients of these substances on. no, i think that's one major problem. and so it makes it difficult. so if you want to transfer, you want to address the problem. so you might be addressing that dish of voice scans 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 defend is a problem, i think she's, i still sticking the drugs. 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. i will have to do so on 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 piece destructive substance that would really need an administration that has social status

use on the going to going to attend, to be able to address it. okay, we'll have to leave the conversation that but the 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 advocates. 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 range of failed drought has destroyed the hobbits and agencies a 24000000 people in the region. phase hunger, 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 ill, 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 waters 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 with 80 percent of the above ways crops present. amazon goggle, it says the country needs about $2000000000.00 to keep people from going hungry, dw, corresponding privilege machine. you read route file, this report 9 to one year old page, and that is the key. i'm pulling by me from zimbabwe global show and we're all

community is inspecting what lead to is left of these crops visa, hard times for the not doing that in is he contemplates the months ahead. in good years, he often harvested more than 2 tons of grain from this field, but this time he will barely get a 50 kilograms sick or vision is from now i'm to 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 try to use you prove someone cuz he's u. s a v a dry spell is ricky hobbled 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 copes 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 o isn't by means. nose and bubbling must succumb to or die from hung up. but cold feed is like these are likely to get with scientists predict increasingly frequent droughts in coming years in the u. n. food and agriculture organizations, phase countries must be invest in drought proofing the agriculture in most countries, investment in drug on his account is locked in. so national,

international resources partners need to invest in thought resilience because it is the most important and has that foresight enough for got it out. a full summer league is like, hey, i'm gonna come by the old tennessee for what that associates like. these essential live saving improvements. what was in bob was traditional reign, fed agriculture, large parts of west africa. so hell, region, plagues by 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 seemed 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 find water. and the disability are used to be full of people, but many have left because of the lack of water forms that use the pump 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. they are, task was protecting people in 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 want to stop it spreading. how they should be getting these people at the desert, and that could be targeted by the tire resisting, said that they could be targeted by the criminals who said we try to educate them and we stay in touch with them because we fear we feel 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, the silver. lemme just to see, but i thought i knew nothing new. the hers are recruited from the know met communities in the region. they know the desert better than anyone and sometimes

spend several weeks on mission to reach the remote disability. i would add to that we are not tired of this. we love this way of life. we are happier than desert than in the city in order 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 marisa, it helps mauritania to minimize the terrorist threats, who attacked 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 about that? so that way the prevention is best as in the queue. you guys about, 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 as well. so that's it. so now i would 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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