Africa Factbook

Khat is a stimulant drug containing cathinone and cathine, chewing Khat is a historic traditional drug or illegal depending on where you live in Africa. Khat stimulant drug is derived from a shrub named Catha edulis. Khat is a Schedule 1 stimulant drug with deep rooted social customs in East Africa particularly in Ethiopia. Khat (pronounced cot) is an evergreen shrub that grows in areas bordering the Red Sea, including countries in East Africa particularly Ethiopia. Cathinone and cathine are chemicals similar to the effects of amphetamines and result in similar stimulant effects in the brain and body.   Khat is the locally chewed social drug in places such as Ethiopia and has a long history as a social routine dating back thousands of years. Khat plant is widely cultivated and known by a variety of names, including qaat and jaad in Somalia, and chat in Ethiopia. Khat is grown in groves and three to four hours per day is devoted to striping the branches chewing the leaves

Third World Countries Don't Exist However, Less Infrastructured Countries Do Exist. What does the term Third World really mean? The phrase Third World, there is no official agreed upon definition of the term however, people in their everyday conversations use the term third world to describe poor developing countries and inferior individuals.  Alfred Sauvy coined the original meaning of third world, in 1952. Third world meant countries that were unaligned with either the Communist Soviet bloc or the Capitalist NATO bloc during the Cold War.  The term Third World implies counties and their people are inferior due to widespread poverty and other factors.   The term Third World obscures all parts of a country's culture and contributions that are not of an economic nature.  Who are the first, second and third world countries? First World refers to developed, capitalist, industrial countries, North America, Western Europe, Japan and Australia.  Second World refers to Russia, Easte