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  • He'll eventually disappear for a few days and at a certain point steal from us, but Chine's from the streets, illegally trades money for profit as a day job, gets locked up in jail twice on shoot days, and stays up most nights chewing miraa if he can get his hands on it.

    John Hibey: The Sundance Diaries: Method Acting In Somalia John Hibey 2012

  • During the 1980s I was a Peace Corps volunteer in Meru District, near the town of Kangeta, where the world's best miraa is grown, doing my personal bit for US hegemony in Africa.

    Archive 2006-04-01 Michael Turton 2006

  • Meru: muraa, miraa (plural) Okiek: tumayot Samburu: mamiraa

    Chapter 7 1999

  • Kambe: miraa Kikuyu: muirungi, miirungi (plural) Kipsigis: tomoiyot Kisii: mairungi Maa: olmeraa Marakwet: tumayot

    Chapter 7 1999

  • Chonyi: miraa Embu: miraa English: khat, Abyssinia tea,

    Chapter 7 1999

  • (Coast) or with dried termites (Turkana); young leaves are chewed like Catha edulis (khat, miraa, Maasai, Luo-Migori) or cooked as a vegetable

    Chapter 7 1999

  • Somali: qat, kat (pronounced chat) Swahili: miraa Teso: emairugi

    Chapter 7 1999

  • Arabian tea Giriama: miraa Kamba: mailyungi, miungi (plural)

    Chapter 7 1999

  • On an average day, ten light planes take off from the airport loaded with khat, locally known as miraa.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • Crackdown against Somalia militants spares miraa ...

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2011

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