to reveal that so world, why did the us government suddenly shut down project cassandra in 2016? 03 pa documentary series and most king has paula stats may, 4th on d, w. this is data being used for guests coming up on the program. how kind of west africa 5 back against the drug that's destroying it to 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 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 sincere and the own president julia is my that b o has declared a national emergency on drug abuse. responding to a drastic increase in the use of kush kush is 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 syria, the audience, as a few puffs and cush catapults to use into

a trance like state police once high, they sway their bodies back and forth, appearing some of the like in drowsy. it's about 25, few is sent to tie this 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. dependency is 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 the 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 ohio. it's like this one and free town. so there are no statistics on christian diction. cheap leaves, 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'll go strategy. so see all young people to control miss world and see what's on his breath is most of the moment it is right along the see really and only psychiatric hospital is overwhelmed with cush addicts. more than half of those admitted i use this, 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 of sizes 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 i'm fortunate,

as we are experiencing is called the course consumption and escalated fatalities. it's key, the push is highly addictive and destructive. what's less clear is when it comes from school, where it's going, reports say it is already destroying lice to neighboring countries like guinea and liberia. kush is not just a problem for us or anyone, 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 their and she joins us now from nairobi. hi, edith, 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 as 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 with people take drugs, the be really good to see what the challenge was. and so this is the report that we filed a part of the 77 percent, which is the w's african flagship 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 soft, 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 house at least 300 people. almost everyone here smokes goose for about 4 years now. it's being severely affecting liberia's utilities. you've had to put into less of what i quickness thing because it's not anything that i've ever experienced before. every room with a 2 x m 2 and 3, and i'm fissions 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. sometimes you know may june forget what it finds. you able to forget what a warranty? i don't think i've been bothering you. so when you dig these, you loud yourself was

a time when you're waiting to get it's already body is completed, 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 teen, 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 said it and some people get ready to die and it was scanned. is it dangerous here for u. s. government? 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. all right, thank you. and the conditions here characterized by drug

abuse, violence and drum disease are shocking and heartbreaking. 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 may be? why do you think the government has been slow to respond? i think the reason is, is that some of the very goal officials go, i thought of this then go drugs, you know about it. and then the drug dealing. yeah, some of the bottom is also involved in that a drug view. so they would not want to put the field of view at the, you know, if they use a bare with the goal,

not really nothing many. and that'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 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, it isn't, isn't to guys. thank you so much for continuing to use the opportunities in this house and the people you 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 or 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 a week and after that's cool, be 19. and so it's been disaster of the 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 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. so 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 eventually 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 then 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. the slippery feeling very, very, very dejected. it is kimani and dw studio and narrow b. we appreciate your reporting. thank you. last week now to principal loose any executive director of the west africa and drug policy network, joining us from across. welcome to dw news africa. now is it clear to you want 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 family interior under the case or see a noun. we hear it has to my boss. but then i think they'll be need, there's a need for. ready advice and 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 or 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 brought to get up 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 is on clear, is that 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 . 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, as we speak most of the lowest in the region or the soap regional, now we'd be fees, then 1st name's lead. and my organization on the west africa, federal forties, and that's what kind of the advocates have been asking one if it is these drills, literally fall is an approach that a so based on human rights and for the show, it is good to go means in liberia and it's really not thinking about support because the approach but the, the law is the legislation remains punitive. and even now for which 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 dictionary, so in the state of the majesty of drug abuse, i am hoping the diesel bins in the formation of the tax forces will go see that

you're putting the killed approach rather than a 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, i'm an idea of what i'm seeing and see what to do. it doesn't look like absolute votes or need seem to criminal justice or even if it's support 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 4 because the approach does that creates in testing, making provisions for harm reduction and also um not as ease of, of the substance itself. so the gun have the properties 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 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 a dish of words, guns, and the issues, the health related issues that we also have to address. so for example, if you believe i, even if use old or defendants are appropriate, my teachers are still sticking to draw. they would have went ahead to they 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 and not have ministration 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 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 the extreme weather has been hits in communities across africa just this week. temperatures reach $48.00 degrees celsius in molly, of africa's hottest record of day, in the month of april. the heat wave has killed more than a 100 people in molly 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 horses. fortunately, all of those on board managed to escape to safety for the south zambia malawi

ends and bob whey have all declared a stage of disaster. the range of failed drought has destroyed the harvest and agencies a 24000000 people in the region. please hunger and 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 correspondent, privilege, machinery, route file. this report 9 to one year old page. now is that key. i'm

a come by me from bob was global show and we're all community. he's 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 kilogram sick. version is from now on to the next tab just in february. we're doing it. we are going to suffer. we are going to stuff a you know, i see people die if we don't use, you know, prove that someone is 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 tip 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 is in by was president, is appealed for you money, terry, and assistance to feed. the hungry top on our pile priority is securing food for them, but we ins knows, but we must succumb to or die from honda. but cold feet is like these are likely to get with scientists predict increasingly frequent droughts in coming years in the u. n. food and agriculture organization saves countries, must invest in drought proofing the agriculture. but in most countries,

investment in the product as again is locked in. so national, international resources partners need to invest in thought resilience because it is the most important has at before southern norfolk, i don't. so summer league is like a, i'm a home by the old, tentative what that associates like these essential life saving improvements old as in bob was traditional rating fed agriculture, large parts of west africa. so hell, region not 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. i also stopped contracts from its next door neighbor molly, which was a haven for as long as the militant groups. the border between them runs for 2000 kilometers. the more attain inside is patrolled by a unique force known as the merest dw maria. gov nicholas school met them and sent

us this report, or 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 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 of the, the hers don't own the act as

a link to far away authorities their task was protecting people in these remote areas from criminals and insurgents. the patrol desert areas near the border with the molly, a violent conflict, including the hottest insurgency, is raging on the other side. the hardest one to stop. it's printing. how they've been getting these people at the desert and it could be targeted by the tire residence to business. it could be targeted by the criminals who said, we try to educate them before and we stay in touch with them. because we fear we feel that some group might change the people's minds that 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 says . so should i a thought i knew nothing. and then 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 for the night and we are not tired of this. we love this way of life. we are happier in the desert than in the city, and in order we want to keep our heritage how we want to keep this originality inherited from our ancestors ago. i know waiting you then carol know a guy who actually leads to the brigade. he says the man hers to have helped mauritania to minimize the terrorist threat, who 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. you guys about that? so i go to apply for some, this is a flicker of hope in the face of ever expanding conflict in the rest of this i how

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