Does the war in Sudan threaten the world supply of gum arabic and sesame?
Arabic Gum
Sesame Seed
Food Additives
Sudan
Published May 23, 2023
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For more than a month, a war has broken out in Sudan with fighting between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) of General Abdel Fattah al-Burhane and the paramilitaries of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) of General Mohamed Hamdane Daglo. Violent fighting between the two camps that left more than 1,000 dead and around a million refugees and displaced. This is not the first war that Sudan has to face, but this time the capital Khartoum is the epicenter of the fighting. There is a lack of water and electricity, money is scarce, some banks are looted or closed, the inhabitants live holed up in their homes, the administrations are closed, the transport of goods and people is slowed down, trade flows entering and outgoing considerably hampered, banking and customs procedures being centralized in Khartoum. The economy is paralyzed with the direct consequence of shortages of essential goods, including food, domestic price hikes and blocked exports. Among these is gum arabic, of which Sudan is ...
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