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Key Coca-Cola & Pepsi Ingredient 'Controlled By RSF Paramilitary In Sudan' Via Middle East Eye Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) is currently controlling access to a vital ingredient used in Coca-Cola and Pepsi across vast swathes of the country, according to a new report. Gum arabic, an organic emulsifier derived from the sap of the acacia trees, is a major ingredient in a range of products, including the gigantic soft drink brands as well as soap, medicine, sweets and cosmetics. Around 70 percent of the world's supply comes from Sudan, where the trees grow in a 200,000 square mile belt across the south of the country that is largely controlled by the RSF, according to Bloomberg. Hisham Salih Yagoub, whose company Afritec is one of Sudan's biggest international suppliers, told the news outlet that he regularly pays the RSF $2,500 per truck to allow transport of the product to the country's ports. "They stop the trucks and you have to pay for the trucks to move,...