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Quote: Although figures are hard to come by, Sudan exports somewhere between 40% and 70% of the world’s gum arabic, most of which comes from or through the small, dusty town of El Obaid in a province called North Kordofan. There are other places that produce gum Arabic, but they tend to be just as unstable (Chad, for example, and Eritrea) and the quality is not as high. It’s hard to escape the irony: from North Kordofan, a dusty, dry corner of a dysfunctional, poverty-stricken country, comes the ingredient without which one of the most iconic and lucrative products in the world could not be made (or at least, not as cheaply).