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steelnomad@diasp.org
You've heard about moonshine during Prohibition...

But what about: Sudan's date-gin brewers thrive despite Sharia

araqi

Three Sudanese men sit on the edge of a bed and watch intently as a clear spirit glugs into a four-litre container.

"A little more - it's not quite at the top," one of them instructs the sisters who are pouring the illegal date-gin known as "araqi".

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