After Alexander the Great conquered Egypt, he embarked on a perilous journey to the Oracle at Siwa to seek answers to his ...

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 ...

Amethyst was fashionable in the Middle Kingdom. Archaeologists discovered jewelry belonging to Middle Kingdom queens and princesses in pyramids at a site called Dahshur around 25 miles south of Cairo.

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

The $53bn (£41bn) plan, drawn up by Egypt and adopted by Arab leaders, would avoid displacing Palestinians from the enclave - but has been rejected by Israel and the US. President Donald Trump ...

“Women can now depend on acacia trees [former name] for firewood instead of cutting indigenous species like shea trees, which are of a high economic value,” said Abdulai Mariama, a local woman ...

While the acacia trees that yield gum arabic grow across ... and sell it to big consumer goods firms. Sorge, who fled to Egypt after RSF forces stole his entire gum supply in 2023, shared WhatsApp ...

like Egypt and South Sudan, have begun to aggressively offer the commodity at cheap prices and without proof it is ...

While the acacia trees that yield gum arabic grow across ... controls all production areas," Sorge said. Sorge, who fled to Egypt after RSF forces stole his entire gum supply in 2023, shared ...

Sudan produces around 80% of the world's gum arabic, a natural substance harvested from acacia trees that's widely used to mix, stabilise and thicken ingredients in mass-market products including ...