CNN’s chief international correspondent Clarissa Ward shared the harrowing experience she and her crew experienced as they were held captive by a militia group in Darfur.
“We had come to Darfur to report on the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, never intending to become part of the story. But months of planning came apart in moments when we were detained by a militia led by the man everyone called the general,” Ward wrote Wednesday.
Ward explained how they were en route to a town in Sudan to cover the ongoing humanitarian crisis that has unfolded during the country’s civil war, something she stressed has been overshadowed in the media by Ukraine’s war with Russia and Israel’s war with Hamas.
“According to the UN, more than 10 million people have been displaced in the violence, almost a quarter of Sudan’s population. More than 26 million people — over three times the population of New York City — face acute hunger,” she told readers.
