[Our_Man_In_Gough_Island]

Somaliland is a breakway section of Somalia, comprising former British Somaliland.

[ncountylee]

Don't see a problem.

[yankeedame]

A mayor in breakaway Somaliland is trying to cut down on the problems caused by khat, a mild stimulant...,

A mild stimulant?? Compared to what? Men spend all there money for this c--p while their children go w/o food, and its considered a mild stimulant? Oh for pete's sake, caffeine is a mild stimulant.

"... by moving dealers to the outskirts of the city Hussein Mohamud Jiir, mayor of the capital Hargeisa, has set aside tracts of land where he hopes to install the khat merchants.

I'll bet you two boxes of donuts this is the real reason why his Honor wants to set up a "Khattown" on the outskirts of town -- to regulate (the word, of course, open to interpretation) and tax (ditto) them.

[Shawndell Green]

"Addicts - mostly men - will spend all their money on the drug, while their children have nothing to eat.

And khat is also blamed for the small plastic bags which litter the city."

Yep, those two problems are equal in the severity. How awful that there is litter in the streets and starving kids are not conducive to one's sense of the aesthetic either.