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

Sudan's ambassador to the US "famously held up a Coca-Cola bottle at a news conference and declared: 'I can stop that gum arabic, and all of us will have lost this'". After 2009, "international ...

Gum arabic acts as an emulsifier in consumer goods and household brands around the world. A Sudanese militia that the US has ...

Cola, M&M's, and L'Oreal lipsticks, is being increasingly smuggled out of war-torn Sudan. The ongoing conflict has ...

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

How a key ingredient in Coca-Cola, M&M's is smuggled from war-torn Sudan Gum arabic, a vital ingredient used in everything from Coca-Cola to M&M's sweets, is increasingly being trafficked from ...

Gum Arabic, essential in products like Coca-Cola and M&M's, is being trafficked from rebel-held Sudanese regions, complicating supply chains for Western companies. Sudan provides 80 per cent of ...