to reveal that so world, why did the us government suddenly shut down project cassandra in 2016? 03 pod document 3 series on most screen has paula dots may 4th on d, w. this is need to be in use africa coming up on the program. how kind of 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 it 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 crumbs. 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 is 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 go. she has a synthetic drug with devastating effects is called hundreds of death as well as major psychiatric damage to some uses. and it's a main victims, a young syria, the audience, as a few past and cush, catapults the 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 $25.00. 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. 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 any myself, so afraid that's phone. so it's difficult to deep ramco. roma is a social work. she often visits crushed use ohio. it's like this one and free town . so there are no statistics on crush the 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 rhodes and see what's on his breath. it's a multi moments. it is right along the 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 it onto the street suit onto to get those. to find much more. you know, people using these of sizes on the inbox has been created on them. now what we see here with kush 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 calls the course consumption and escalated fatalities. it's clear that crush 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 the serial and, but also some neighboring countries. back in january libraries and you present joseph walk, 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, 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 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 a report that we filed as part of the 77 percent, which is the w's african flagship program. as 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 a popular drug for distribution to youth who have nothing to look forward to. that's what 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, housed at least $300.00 people. almost everyone here smokes goose for about 4 years now. it's being severely affecting liberia as useful things 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, we need to do some die. you know, mid june. for the past. did you feel to forget what a warranty? i don't think i've been bothering you. so when you dig this, you loud yourself was

a time when you're waiting to get is 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 keen 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 i will give you the jamie was 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 going to give you the money? because that happened to you. yeah. all right, thank you. and the conditions here characterized by rate drug

abuse, violence and drug tests. disease are shocking and heartbreaking. people here results various means to earn money. some so food, while others work at the beach plumbing concrete. drug addiction has incapacitated many 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 gone officials, you go, i thought of this, then go drugs, you know about it. and then the drugs eating, do you have some member 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 maybe. 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 the top. did that and involved. right. so that can be no help. that isn't isn't to guys. thank you so much for continuing to use the opportunities in 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 or chilling and sad. watch them, you just 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 could 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 and he's just 20 years old. and i just do 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 luce, any executive director of the west african drug policy network, joining us from a cra welcome to dw 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, the room was about the composition of the drugs outside of the group myself. it's what looks like copies, but it looks a bit more different. but of course i remember was about the contents of the substance they has. um, tramadol, it has family interior and it keeps us to live. we here it has human bones. but then i think they'll be need, there's a need for. ready ready an adviser emergencies 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? 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 tools that claims that the frequency, those birth to get up i different produces, we are, you have to really find out the all 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 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 have or even that was the way it was in west africa, 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?

um, respectfully, i will say no. i mean the holland approach dro, any differently in the past. i mean us, we speak most of the laws and the region or the soap regional. now we'd be div then force means lead and uh, my organization on the west africa, federal forties. and that's what kind of the advocates have been asking when it is . these drove low reform is an approach that a so based on human rights and for the show, it is good. the government's in liberia and see really not thinking about the quote because the approach. but the, the law is the legislation remains punitive. and even the outputs they're currently using, i guess is also is kids optics. it's also punitive. the blame is always on the people who use drugs. so with the declaration of a state of the majesty of drug abuse, i am hoping, as the diesels,

named in the formation of the types forces will go see to your book the shows approved to run in any criminal justice approach. i mean, that means we should have on both i 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 c, l, u, it doesn't look like an absolute board. so need seem to criminal justice or even if it's a board because i put the class that i've seen how these will be out. we are dressed like the gum. yeah. the using a model that is a for because the approach does not create in testing, making provisions for how reduction and also um, not as ease of, of the substance itself. so the gun how to prevent the vision. what makes this in particular, such a difficult drug and you know,

surrounding phenomenon to tackle 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 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 drugs. they would have what a health related issues are you, 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 piece 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 48.5 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 molly over wyoming the mugs. over in the horn of africa there's been heavy rain in one incident in 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, we 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 wins 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 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 the fall and winter of el nino years, these winds are weaker than usual and often blow in 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 them by ways crops present. amazon goggle, it says the country needs about $2000000000.00 to keep people from going hungry. the w corresponding privilege machine. you read root 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 task list. in february we really think that we are going to suffer. we are going to stuff a, you know, i see people die if we try to prove that someone disease, u. s. a v a dry spill 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 step 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 somebody else knows and bubbling must succumb to or die from honda. but quote, 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 say's countries must invest in drought proofing the agriculture. in most countries,

investment in the product as account is locked in. so national international resources partners need to invest in thought is it is because it is the most important has that for us. i don't know if it got it out. so summer league is like chemical imbalance. o 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 by violence. you have is insurgencies, but one country stands out as an exception. mauritania has not seen a terror attack for more than a decade. i also stock contracts 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. 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 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 him 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 of 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 living in the desert, and it could be targeted by the tire residence to business. it could be targeted by the criminals over new, so we try to educate them before and we stay in touch with them. because we fear that some group might change the people's minds and lead them to join these groups, which would create a problem for the entire world and a tv. 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. and then the hers are recruited from the nomad communities in the region. they know the desert better than anyone and sometimes

spend several weeks on mission to reach the remote disability. that would add to that and we are not tired of it. 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. and then carol know a guy who actually leads to the brigade. he says that my 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

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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