How Coca-Cola ingredient is smuggled from Sudan

A farmer carries gum arabic collected from an acacia tree in the western Sudanese town of El-Nahud, in the main farming state of North Kordofan on December 18, 2012.

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What you need to know:

  • The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), at war since April 2023 with Sudan's national army, seized control late last year of the main gum-harvesting regions of Kordofan and Darfur in western Sudan.

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