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Smuggled Sudanese resource quietly funding the country's civil war

Original: The smuggled resource in your candy and soda funding Sudan's civil war

Reports highlight that resources smuggled out of Sudan, such as sugar and gum arabic used in candy and soda, are helping finance the country's civil war. Revenues from these everyday ingredients, exported through informal channels, are said to flow to armed factions, linking global food supply chains to the conflict and prompting calls for scrutiny of Western imports.

Why now: Fresh coverage of how everyday consumer goods contain ingredients whose trade revenues fund warring parties in Sudan.

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