Global trade in gum arabic centres on the African nation – and proceeds bankroll conflict between the army and paramilitary ...

By Simon Marks For two years, Hisham Salih Yagoub has fielded calls from frantic drivers across wartorn Sudan asking him to pay thousands of dollars to the genocidal paramilitary group that has torn ...

Gum arabic, a vital ingredient used in everything from Coca-Cola to M&M's sweets, is increasingly being trafficked from rebel ...

A Sudanese woman holds pieces of gum arabic, the resin of an acacia tree that grows in Sudan's conflict zones. Gum arabic, a vital ingredient used in everything from Coca-Cola to M&M's sweets ...

Thousands of seeds from native African tree species and indigenous varieties ... including a deposit of ancient sorghum varieties rescued from Sudan’s national genebank. According to the Crop ...

Throughout the war, the gum arabic that stops the sugar in Coke from falling to the bottom of the can has continued to flow out of the Darfur and Kordofan regions that the RSF largely control, and ...

Gum arabic, derived from the sap of acacia trees, is widely used as a stabiliser ... and food and drink. And Sudan, with its "vast acacia forests" and "liberalised" market, is a "significant ...

Sudan produces around 80% of the world's gum arabic, a natural substance harvested from acacia trees that's widely used to mix, stabilise and thicken ingredients in mass-market products including ...

Sudan produces around 80% of the world's gum arabic, a natural substance harvested from acacia trees that's widely used to mix, stabilize and thicken ingredients in mass-market products including ...

Paramilitary group accused of mass rights abuses and sexual assault reportedly holds a large monopoly over vital gum arabic supplies ...