By Simon Marks For two years, Hisham Salih Yagoub has fielded calls from frantic drivers across wartorn Sudan asking him to pay thousands of dollars to the genocidal paramilitary group that has torn ...

Global trade in gum arabic centres on the African nation – and proceeds bankroll conflict between the army and paramilitary ...

Exploring the significance of chewing gum, usually chewed by General Buck Turgidson, in Stanley Kubrick's Cold War comedy masterpiece 'Dr Strangelove'.

The Balochistan Liberation Army opened fire on a passenger train in southwestern Pakistan on Tuesday, injuring the train ...

Gum arabic, a vital ingredient used in everything from Coca-Cola to M&M's sweets, is increasingly being trafficked from rebel ...

It's the biggest anti pakistan operations that have been launched by Baloch liberation army. The Jaffar Express, with around 400 passengers on board on its way from Quetta in Pakistan's southwestern ...

After it’s sorted in warehouses in Port Sudan, Yagoub’s gum arabic is sent to clients in Europe and the US. Gum arabic, a ...

In a strongly worded statement, the Balochistan Liberation Army warned the Pakistani army against any intervention, threatening to execute the hostages if such an attempt was made ...

The attack on the Jaffer Express passenger train took place near Ab-e-Gum area of Mach Town in Balochistan’s Kachhi ... In a ...

The group claimed that all civilian passengers (out of the total 450) - including women, children, the elderly, and Baloch ...

The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), at war since April 2023 with Sudan's national army, seized control late last year of the main gum-harvesting regions of Kordofan and Darfur in western ...