Lydia Elder 🇨🇦🍉 (@lydiaelder.bsky.social)

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 rebel-held areas of war-torn Sudan, traders and industry sources say, complicating Western companies' efforts to insulate their supply chains from the conflict. https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/how-key-ingredient-coca-cola-mms-is-smuggled-war-torn-sudan-2025-03-04/